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Censorship is no longer the tool of choice of wannabe dictators. Instead, the focus is now on editorializing of communication channels. Open up the front page o
by thrance 1y ago
Censorship is no longer the tool of choice of wannabe dictators. Instead, the focus is now on editorializing of communication channels. Open up the front page of X in a private tab, and see how everything is far right propaganda. Who needs to censor anything anymore? Simply downrank whatever displeases you into oblivion.
Good for Brazil, maybe they can slow down the fascist disease that rots our democracies from the inside.
- EasyMark 1y agoI think they can rely on the general lack of critical thinking skills in the general populace as more effective than constraining information. who have been taught to trust what they read, unless it is dead obvious that what they're reading is fiction (like a novel or comic book). All they have to do is flood social media with propaganda and drown out any truth to be found there. It's a very popular tactic on X around election time.