Don't underestimate How Badly The Powerful Need Control Of Online Speech https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/dont-underestimate-how-badly-the-powerful-nee d-control-of-online-speech-a9378cf036b4
Seems like almost every day now the mass media are blaring about the need for speech on the internet to be controlled or restricted in some way. Today they're running stories about Joe Rogan and Covid misinformation; tomorrow it will be something else.
The reasons for the need to control online speech change from day to day, but the demand for that control remains a constant. Some days it's a need to protect the citizenry from online disinformation campaigns by foreign governments. Sometimes it's the need to guarantee election security. Sometimes it's the need to eliminate domestic extremism and conspiracy theories. Sometimes it's Covid misinformation. The problems change, but the solution is always the same: increased regulation of speech by monopolistic online platforms in steadily increasing coordination with the US government.
It's actually pretty comical at this point, once you notice it. It's like if you had an expensive Prada bag that your friend really coveted and she was always making up excuses to try and take it home with her. "Gosh I'm carrying all these small objects and I have nothing to carry them in!"
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* El Gato de Fuego (The Fire Cat) 4:920/69 * Pedasi, Panama
... California is a fine place to live -- if you happen to be an orange.
[...]increased regulation of speech by monopolistic online
platforms in steadily increasing coordination with the US
government. It's actually pretty comical at this point,
once you notice it. It's like if you had an expensive
Prada bag that your friend really coveted and she was
always making up excuses to try and take it home with her.
"Gosh I'm carrying all these small objects and I have
nothing to carry them in!"
You lost me on the Prada example. :/
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/dont-underestimate-how-badly-the-powerful-need-control-of-online-speech-a9378cf036b4
I have no idea why URL's get grunged so often...
The reasons for the need to control online speech change from day to day, but the demand for that control remains a
Re: Mass Media
By: August Abolins to John Dovey on Tue Jan 18 2022 08:32:00
You lost me on the Prada example. :/LOL. You need to read the whole example on the link.. .otherwise it doesn't really make sense..
JD
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* El Gato de Fuego (The Fire Cat) 4:920/69 * Pedasi, Panama
... Government corruption seems always to be reported in the past tense.
How did you manage to keep it from breaking in the 2nd attempt? The first broke at position 79/80.
It didn't break because it was posted on Telegram.
Don't underestimate How Badly The Powerful Need Control Of Online Speech https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/dont-underestimate-how-badly-the-powerful-nee d-control-of-online-speech-a9378cf036b4
Seems like almost every day now the mass media are blaring about the need for speech on the internet to be controlled or restricted in some way. Today they're running stories about Joe Rogan and Covid misinformation; tomorrow it will be something else.
The reasons for the need to control online speech change from day to day, but the demand for that control remains a constant. Some days it's a need to protect the citizenry from online disinformation campaigns by foreign governments. Sometimes it's the need to guarantee election security. Sometimes it's the need to eliminate domestic extremism and conspiracy theories. Sometimes it's Covid misinformation. The problems change, but the solution is always the same: increased regulation of speech by monopolistic online platforms in steadily increasing coordination with the US government.
It's actually pretty comical at this point, once you notice it. It's like if you had an expensive Prada bag that your friend really coveted and she was always making up excuses to try and take it home with her. "Gosh I'm carrying all these small objects and I have nothing to carry them in!"
...
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* El Gato de Fuego (The Fire Cat) 4:920/69 * Pedasi, Panama
... California is a fine place to live -- if you happen to be an orange.
Not only the need to control speech, this just in (unconfirmed).. that there is need of who is using what:
US govt orders WhatsApp to track unidentified users for unknown reasons 'The Meta-owned messaging app was ordered by the DEA to spy on several foreign nationals, even though the agency had no evidence the users had committed a crime or even knew their names, according to an unsealed warrant.
' "The warrant reveals the DEA didn?t know the identities of any of the targets, but told WhatsApp to monitor the IP addresses and numbers with which the targeted users were communicating, as well as when and how they were using the app," a security and privacy reporter found.
'The surveillance was reportedly part of an operation investigating the importation of opioids from China.
Hi John...
It didn't break because it was posted on Telegram.
Isn't there a setting in Synchronet to avoid hard returns unless specifically entered? ..something to allow free-flow paragraphs?
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