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> By simply suppressing topics, or elevating trends they might find helpful in swaying the populous. Isn't that exactly what US media does as well? Every media
by ossobuco 2y ago
> By simply suppressing topics, or elevating trends they might find helpful in swaying the populous.
Isn't that exactly what US media does as well? Every media has an owner with his own interests, the information they'll provide you will be carefully crafted to not harm those interests.
- havefunbesafe 2y agoBest case: I am not propagandized by any state media || Second worst case: I am propagandized by my own country's media || Worst case: I am propagandized by a foreign adversary's media
- ossobuco 2y agoSo just blind nationalism? Who guarantees that your own country's propaganda is more beneficial to you?
- andy24 2y agoThe amount of mental gymnastics to justify censorship in this thread is off the charts. A really solid anti utopia material. One can probably make a dystopian museum exhibition with quotes from this thread. On a similar note, I have never seen so much bigotry and populism on HN as in this and H1B threads.