• flan [they/them]
    hexbear
    9
    edit-2
    7 months 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]
      hexbear
      6
      7 months 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]
        hexbear
        5
        6 months 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]
          hexbear
          3
          6 months 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)