Why? Cynical is believing people must be protected from opinions.

I'm far more optimistic than most.

Oooooof. Yeah, we should definitely let governments pipe their propaganda directly into every surface in our lives constantly. Surely that's something that's healthy and good for all of us. Governments have no incentive to lie and have no power to buy out all the bandwidth.

"Well, at least I made money on the government shutting down discussion" is deeply messed up.

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dizlexic 2 days ago | parent [-]

I love this moronic take because it's governments that will enforce what information is deemed as propaganda. 10/10 cognitive disconnect.

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sniffers a day ago | parent [-]

No, you are being thick. The governments are issuing the propaganda. Read the post again.

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dizlexic a day ago | parent [-]

If you can't think around this corner I can't help you,

Who will prohibit it? Magical Gnomes?

If you say the UN let me remind you that the UN is comprised of Governments, the majority of which are considered autocracies.

So in short, you want dictatorships worldwide to be empowered to define and control speech.

Sounds... Great...

Also If you'd like we could go into the ineffectiveness of the UN in general, but I'm not going to spend the time typing all of that out.

edit: fixed a missing word

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sniffers 17 hours ago | parent [-]

If you are going to build strawmen to cut down over and over, there's clearly no intellectually fertile soil here. You seem to be enjoying operating both sides of some imagined conversation quite well, and I'll leave it to you.

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dizlexic 10 hours ago | parent [-]

So you can’t think around that corner I guess.

I guess you do believe magical gnomes would enforce your ban on government propaganda in ads.

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sniffers 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Sigh.

Try again.

The thread is about how an "At last I got mine" attitude towards making money from government propaganda ad revenue is a shit attitude.

You are the one who is out here building windmills to tilt at about bans on government propaganda. That's not something I ever suggested. Nor is it even germane to the thread. Again, you are engaging in some elementary school level straw manning.

One does not need to ban government propaganda, or propaganda generally, to avoid being proud to be paid to spread it. Consider: you could be not proud you sold that ad space. You could not sell that ad space to those people. You could not sell ad space generally. I'm sure one could come up with other ideas as well.

I hope you see now how infantile your diversions are, how juvenile the comments around thinking around corners. You wandered completely off topic and seem quite upset I didn't follow you there, then invented a version of me that did to fight.

	▲	dizlexic 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		so, you have no answer. I'm proud that anyone who wants to can spread whatever info they want. I love that I facilitate that. Every election year my income almost doubles, why? Because people want their opinions heard. I'm glad I can help with that. You can call the topic whatever you want. I am for the free exchange of ideas, you're against it. :D