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by coffeeblack 5y ago
Good point, you are right. Post updated.
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
True. But I could imagine that 100 years from now, kids may browse the Facebook feed of their great grandparents, maybe even as a immersive 3D recreation of the life of their relative from a century ago. Including all their personal notes a
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
Because of the bias of the “fact” checkers, I guess? But seriously, the term “fact checking” is just a modern euphemism for propaganda. The other day Facebook “fact checked” a peer reviewed paper in the British Medical Journal. There are so
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
It’s not so much about the speech as it is about using government money to rent the best spots on the town square.
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
The “ADV Podcasts” (a China focused podcast) has talked about the propaganda collaboration of Putin’s government and the CCP government for some weeks.
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
Criticizing the CCP has nothing to do with the Chinese people. You are not a racist against Americans when you criticize Biden or Trump.
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
Books are more abstract. The internet has video and sound and casual conversations and memes and the daily trivialities of the life of millions of ordinary people. If books and newspapers made a as difference when they were new, I don’t kno
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
Maybe the Internet and its function as memory of humankind may break that cycle in the future?
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
Russia has been invading its neighbors for 15 years by now. It’s just that the West never reacted to it.
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
Some have, not only at CNN. However, the level of propaganda on RT is very different.
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
Too many years of everybody and their grandma being called “literally Nazi”.
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
Every conflict party in every conflict does that. Remember the story about Iraqi soldiers pulling babies out of incubators in Kuwait? Told by a “nurse” in from of the UN, so that the US would get permission to invade Iraq? People need to be
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
Good. It’s important to be able to see all sides. Everybody with a brain will know to be very skeptical of any news source directly controlled by a government. Same is true for CGTN and other channels still on YT.
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
More importantly, it would have set a precedent that nobody could want.
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
That’s for a judge to decide, not some helpdesk intern.
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
The storm was the only cause, so it is in fact “of”.
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
And then there is the new “cancel culture” that does not target the speech itself, but the reputation of the author. By using horrific accusations and smears, the author’s reputation is destroyed, so that people don’t want to hear the speec
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
Clickbaity title, it implies that the browser itself somehow doesn’t want users to use VPN. That’s untrue. This is just about Brave Ads, an optional component some users opt in to. VPNs are used for ad fraud and may reduce traffic quality,
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
So all it took to get here was €10 bln from EU governments and $10 bln from the US government to push the rapid development of mRNA tech? Shouldn’t this be done regularly? How about $20 bln to finally get a good malaria vaccine?
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by coffeeblack 5y ago
> Since it’s common for sites to upload your email address to Google and Facebook… Is this true? That sounds very illegal, at least in Europe under GDPR.