• davel [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I’m sorry but I don’t know how to summarize this long, winding current in American socio-media-politics of the last six years in a Lemmy comment. It’s just too big a ball of wax, and I’m not up for it.

    • flan [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      And so you thought "the mis- dis- mal-information discourse" would be the way people would understand what you're talking about and what it is Taibbi has exposed?

      • davel [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The people who are familiar with it will, and the people who aren’t obviously won’t. Same as in town. I don’t know what you’re trying to do, browbeat me into being your personal thing-explainer?

        • flan [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          I mean you're on a public message board and you clearly have A Thing you care about, so maybe in the interest of promoting that Thing you should explain it?

          • davel [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I’ve brought them up before in posts & messages on hexbear and lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml and Mastodon, and I’m sure I will again.

            I think it matters because the push to control social media has expanded to include all of the imperial West, and they are aware of the fediverse and are going to come for us:
            Atlantic Council report: Scaling Trust on the Web: Annex 5: Collective Security in a Federated World (PDF)