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I dispute you’ve made any kind of connection between the two beyond your own feelings. I put it to you, similarly without evidence, that your support for unfet
by jackvalentine 1y ago
I dispute you’ve made any kind of connection between the two beyond your own feelings.
I put it to you, similarly without evidence, that your support for unfettered filth freedom is the result of a process of manufacturing consent now that American big tech dominates.
- AnthonyMouse 1y agoThe trouble with that theory is that tech megacorps are a relatively recent development, whereas e.g. the court cases involving Larry Flynt were events from the 1970s and 80s and the likes of Hustler Magazine hardly had an outsized influence over the general media. Meanwhile morals panics are at least as old as the Salem Witch Trials.
- jackvalentine 1y agoMegacorps, simultaniously impotent and trillion dollar companies.
- AnthonyMouse 1y agoThe US government has a multi-trillion dollar annual budget -- they spend more money every year than the entire market cap of any given megacorp -- and they can't solve it either. Maybe it's a hard problem?