I believe Americans are not just being censored. I believe there’s an equivalent effort on the front end of Internet culture to rob people of their will to be free. I believe this is is the hardest part of the Internet censorship story to understand, but also the most crucial and most dangerous.

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[–]shatabee5 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's victim blaming.

Nobody asked the Pentagon to spend billions and billions to manipulate and control them with the internet. Nowhere is being a "sheep" in the hierarchy of needs. People don't want to be hypnotized. They want decent lives. It's cheaper for the oligarchs to hypnotize them. Cheaper is always the route we get.

[–]Feldheld 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You still need two for a successful hypnosis. There is no innocent victim here. You have no clue how much the sheep hate people who dare thinking for themselves or "do their own research".

[–]EddieC 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You still need two for a successful hypnosis. There is no innocent victim here.

indeed. Anyone here for Accretive Dialogue on Solutions?
 

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I dunno, look at the whole Reddit API fee protest. What the mods were upset about was the possibility of losing the tools they use to ban accounts, which is a form of censorship. I doubt it affected more than 1% of the user base. And many subs still have rules against "vaccine misinformation," and because of that, any discussion of Covid feels like you've gone back in time to 2020. I haven't been on recently but within the year I have still seen popular comments claiming the covid shot stops the spread.

Many people do want a boot on their neck to lick.