Interesting post today on social media. My take is that any censorship is totally bad. This means that we cannot sterilize the content we get. I find the delete buttons work quite well. But maybe pathological, I read a lot of the right wing stuff. Some of it is purely toxic to be avoided/blocked. However, much else is important to understand the oppositional thinking. Many of those people are not evil and I can talk with them as I did on facebook this a.m. The liberal/left is not always great on issues that the right focuses on. The left, for example, supports unquestioningly the single note narratives on topics like Ukraine or Covid without any question. I find more in synch with the right on these topics as the evidence from independent journalists puts the lie the MSM propaganda narrative.
It is also outright frightening to have the government decide what thoughts we can have on any topic. That is always suspect and to be fought against. On this the left and right need to come together to resist. FYI, was reading how this effort at controlling the narrative with the $$$millions, if not $$$billions being sunk into this effort, is heavily geared to controlling the educated, white, liberal middle class. And it is working which says little for that class of people having a clue about propaganda in this country and how susceptible it is, something that group fancies themselves beyoind. Really frightening!.
Not gonna be Mastadon, and I checked out Tribel, they don't even have the ability to change your username. I blogged about this recently here, as to the delima and outcome:
I have heard from some former colleagues that it is already in the works. Something like Blue Social they are saying on Twitter. It will be party-driven. Thing is, how are they possibly going to monitor speech?
The Democrats have boxed themselves into a corner by abandoning the argument of ideas, in favor of top-down misinfo boards and government interference. But, its about time, the freeloading days by Dems on Twitter being one-sided are over. It will be a good thing for Dems to create something more insular-- certainly has been for the Republicans.
Interesting post today on social media. My take is that any censorship is totally bad. This means that we cannot sterilize the content we get. I find the delete buttons work quite well. But maybe pathological, I read a lot of the right wing stuff. Some of it is purely toxic to be avoided/blocked. However, much else is important to understand the oppositional thinking. Many of those people are not evil and I can talk with them as I did on facebook this a.m. The liberal/left is not always great on issues that the right focuses on. The left, for example, supports unquestioningly the single note narratives on topics like Ukraine or Covid without any question. I find more in synch with the right on these topics as the evidence from independent journalists puts the lie the MSM propaganda narrative.
It is also outright frightening to have the government decide what thoughts we can have on any topic. That is always suspect and to be fought against. On this the left and right need to come together to resist. FYI, was reading how this effort at controlling the narrative with the $$$millions, if not $$$billions being sunk into this effort, is heavily geared to controlling the educated, white, liberal middle class. And it is working which says little for that class of people having a clue about propaganda in this country and how susceptible it is, something that group fancies themselves beyoind. Really frightening!.
Not gonna be Mastadon, and I checked out Tribel, they don't even have the ability to change your username. I blogged about this recently here, as to the delima and outcome:
https://netroots.substack.com/p/1996-2026-a-review-of-how-online
I have heard from some former colleagues that it is already in the works. Something like Blue Social they are saying on Twitter. It will be party-driven. Thing is, how are they possibly going to monitor speech?
The Democrats have boxed themselves into a corner by abandoning the argument of ideas, in favor of top-down misinfo boards and government interference. But, its about time, the freeloading days by Dems on Twitter being one-sided are over. It will be a good thing for Dems to create something more insular-- certainly has been for the Republicans.