I mean, what's the material difference? InfoWars is *like that* because AJ was raised on the same deranged anti-Communist propaganda that VOA was designed to disseminate.
I thought the final Lethal Weapon movie was particularly stupid for having a South African as the bad guy, now I think all Bond/Bourne action movie franchises need one
What if we just said fuck it and start having Israeli bad guys. They are frankly far more intimidating than a guy who sounds like he's trying to eat the English language like a waffle.
Doesn't state media mean it's controlled by the state ? But, in this case it's controlled by a person to further his interests. Meaning if there was a fallout between this person and the state. The whole Twitter narrative changes.
We seem to be 5 years away from a point where all social media is run as nonprofits or Public Benefit corps. BlueSky is proving that the Wikipedia model works for social platforms too. Not sure what took us so long as a society...
Any technology is only as ethical as the society using it. We are just not that ethical of a society yet
(A prime example; we discovered the power of nuclear energy and we built enough bombs to destroy the planet multiple times over… and we - humans - still threaten to use them periodically)
Fun fact: The German word for "text message" is SMS (short message service). Thus, Twitter was originally framed as a "Kurznachrichtendienst", meaning it was accessed via text message. However, the German word for "message" ist also the word for "news", so around 2016 the meaning shifted completely.
Now "Nachrichten", when used in a journalistic context, is a professional term. Today, every major German news outlet calls Twitter a "Kurznachrichtendienst", actively suggesting that it's a platform *meant* for professional short form reporting. This is utterly fascinating to me.
Absolutely. As long as it remains unofficial, they can claim "free speech" rather than acknowledging that the org is basically a propaganda machine at this point.
Agreed. Unimaginable the influence feds under Biden admin had on all social media platforms. So glad that we have free expression on platforms like bsky & X 👍👍
Liberals looking for state, which after neoliberalism doesn't exist.
They can't see that Corporations are the state. Trump represents them.
Don't fight the state , fight the corporations! Thus, the real state. Liberals...... Oh god!
As in Orwell's 1984.
But liberals don't understand that "state" is not the King, the Leviathan, no more.. .State means Corporations. They rule! They are the power.
Liberals are about to be swallow by corporate totalitarianism.
They don't need democracy.
Just the elections show to entertain the mob
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This is a great listen
*some is me
(Watching crown fly past.)
Ugggghhhh!
(A prime example; we discovered the power of nuclear energy and we built enough bombs to destroy the planet multiple times over… and we - humans - still threaten to use them periodically)
i was aleays suspicious and never joined because all the corporations took to it straight away
Wild right?
But me and everyone I know is not a representative sample size so I guess this could be true.
They want the State to be managed like twitter.
Set aside , that everything Edolf manages goes to 💩
Same as Trump.
But that is exactly what Putin wanted.
Reflexive control.
They can't see that Corporations are the state. Trump represents them.
Don't fight the state , fight the corporations! Thus, the real state. Liberals...... Oh god!
But liberals don't understand that "state" is not the King, the Leviathan, no more.. .State means Corporations. They rule! They are the power.
Liberals are about to be swallow by corporate totalitarianism.
They don't need democracy.
Just the elections show to entertain the mob
…and moved my whole thing over to Dreamwidth and I’m still there. It rules.