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The Elite War on Free Thought

46 pointsby itbehoalmost 2 years ago

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paulddraperalmost 2 years ago
A well-thought article<p>&gt; One of the big themes of 1984 was the reduction of everything to simple binaries. He described a world where “all ambiguities and shades of meaning had been purged,”<p>&gt; A political movement has long been afoot in America and other places to reduce every political question to simple binaries.<p>&gt; This is straight out of Orwell. Instead of having “ambiguities” and “shades of meaning” on Covid-19, they reduced everything to a binary: vax and anti-vax. It was the same with someone who shared true research about the efficacy of natural immunity or suggested that the virus came from a lab. It all might be factual, but it was politically inconvenient, something they called “malinformation.”<p>&gt; [Green Party candidate] Stein was put on a [Twitter] denylist called is_Russian because an algorithm determined she had too many beliefs that coincided with banned people, especially Russian banned people.<p>&gt; We have been complaining about censorship, and it’s important to do that. But they are taking aim at people in a way that will make censorship unnecessary, by building communities of human beings with no memory and monochrome perception.
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Khelavasteralmost 2 years ago
Facebook&#x27;s Senior Product Misinformation Policy Manager, Aaron Berman, worked for the CIA for 15 years before joining Facebook in 2019..
Kyealmost 2 years ago
Not a peep about the spate of book bannings, attacks on free expression by queer people, attacks on people not suitably gender conforming in bathrooms, and attacks on queer events in this lengthy piece on the attack on free speech.<p>Which makes this line <i>especially</i> bizarre:<p>&gt;&gt; <i>&quot;It’s why people can’t read books anymore and why, when they see people like Russell who don’t fit into obvious categories, they don’t know what to do except point and shriek, like extras in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.&quot;</i><p>When you realize he&#x27;s not talking about any of these real attacks on freedom.<p>I&#x27;m not surprised every submission under this domain appears to be hot garbage.
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