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1 year ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)1 child
To a certain degree, I agree with the sentinent. We're not supposed to live in a big globohomo "community" with billions of other people. We're designed to live in smaller communities (a few hundred, max), with people that share almost everything in common with us. Those smaller communities band together to form larger communities and nations, and if the nation is properly homogeneous, most people will still agree with each other for the most part.
But, the political arena is where disagreements and problems are aired. That requires free speech, without any censorship of opposing opinions. The public square, social media, has become that arena.
1 year ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
Except it hasn't. The censorship of the internet is VAST, COLLABORATIVE, and TOTAL. Google is used for 90% of all searches. YouTube hosts 90% of all videos. Facebook and Instagram are 90% of all social media. Reddit is 90% of all forum use. The stranglehold is breaking because people are getting tired of it so they are using tiktok and brave and others but the information has been suppressed for so long it's very difficult to change it.
1 year ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
The nice thing about small communities is that you can just make a small splinter group and it can sustain itself. You don't need 10k users to have a fun community. Rememver VOAT? I didn't have any more users than consume_product has now and it was not bad.
But, the political arena is where disagreements and problems are aired. That requires free speech, without any censorship of opposing opinions. The public square, social media, has become that arena.