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• krunklom@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You understand the difference between a medium and the content on that medium right?

  That’s a rhetorical question since you clearly don’t.

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  • UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Corporate control over an algorithm that decides who is served what content is a platform-agnostic tool of power over society. We’re seeing that danger manifest in old and new ways every single day. That lever of power allows whomever owns that particular medium to push whatever content they like. That is the entire motivation behind and purpose of the Fediverse and other decentralization efforts.

    Zuck and muskrat separate populations, push propaganda and influence discussions at an unprecedented level. The control a single corporation, a single authoritarian point of power has over such vast swathes of population dwarfs the propagandic power of Goebbles and Stalin by a couple orders of magnitude.

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  • hark@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you? Control over the medium is far more powerful than being a mere user of that medium.

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• LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cambridge Analytica,

  That’s British

  anti-vax, Andrew Wakefield, the guy who started the antivax movement, is British

  anti-trans, The US passed laws protecting trans people and many Americans are literally trans or allies. Russia however, is extremely anti-trans.

  anti-abortion, See the above point

  anti-immigrant See the above point, also, American is a country of immigrants and refugees, “Melting Pot,” America was one of the first countries to encourage and mobilize massive movements of immigrants, which sheltered them from oppressive governments looking to hurt them. This includes people fleeing from Russia and their wars.

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  • missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The US passed laws protecting trans people and many Americans are literally trans or allies. Russia however, is extremely anti-trans.

    ahh, to live in 2014 again.

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    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s still here in 2025. America isn’t a bunch of fascist MAGAs, even if we are being taken over.

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      • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You know America is cooked because even liberals are blaming everything on evil foreigners

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      • missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        my sibling in Christ, Reps. Mace and Jackson literally shouted the t-slur yesterday and called for all trans people to be forcibly institutionalized. Trump said he “wouldn’t oppose” banning the trans flag when a reporter asked about “transtifa.” Musk retweeted someone who called trans women “perverted, deranged bioweapons” and trans men “osteoporotic, androgynous goblins,” calling us to be contained and forbidden to communicate with each other. along with someone else calling for a total ban on HRT for all ages. we’ve been kicked out of the military, and stripped of security clearances. the DoJ has floated banning us from gun ownership by ruling that we’re “mentally defective.” my passport has an M on it because Trump reverted all the rules on his first day in office. it’s a literal felony for trans women to use the women’s bathroom in Florida, and for trans office workers to use their own pronouns. coverage for trans health has been stripped from nearly every public service. trans protections have recently been eviscerated in Skrmetti.

        it’s really not going great.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yea naw, my parents watch WeChat short videos and read their BS articles and they constantly regurgitate anti-Democrat rhetorics, and whenever someone gets shot by police, they fucking cheer, the homeless people, anyone with a “mental illness”, even George Floyd, they think trials are waste of time and resources, they want the system to just skip the trial and want the suspects dead.

  Can’t even blame “Americans” for this, the CCP has full control of the content, they clearly aren’t censoring it.

  WeChat is literally poisoning the Chinese Overseas Diaspora. Its another tentacle of the CCP’s power. There’s no doubt they also infect social media platforms like facebook, xitter, etc…They sow chaos, and untimately, whatever the CCP does damages the repututation of anyone who is ethnic Chinese or looks ethnic Chinese. They are infaming Sinophobia by being the worse representatives of my people. And all the abuse that I have endured from my parents is from this toxic culture, fuck this “filial piety” BS, fuck conservatism. I’ve been helping out in my parents bussiness, and they still say I’m useless. I really wanna go back in time and shoot confucious for inventing the stupid ass religion, fuck your 孝順, its literally parental indoctrination to control their children. Evil ass shit. Fuck confucious.

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I assumed the US was disseminating right-wing propaganda among the chinese diaspora, given that they do it with every other one.

    What does China even get out of turning your parents into right-wing psychos? America gets a community that is happy to work with them against their home country.

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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      • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m sorry for that. If its any consolation, the dynamics usually change as they get older and more dependent on you.

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