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> You don't know what it feels like not because you're so free, but because you agree with the ruling regime on what it considers the most important questions.

We don’t know what it feels like because we collectively participate and decide what should be considered and what not _periodically_ and it’s possible to change it, evidently, with various degrees and velocity by voting.

> I would much prefer the dictatorship-style censorship, because our censorship is far, far more effective.

Case in point!

I’ve lived under both and can guarantee you don’t know what that dictatorship you so much yearn for has in their bag for you until it’s too late.

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aaa_aaa 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I guess he is not yearning for dictatorship, the style of censorship is the question. Preventing access to information is bad, but likely less harmful than deception.

	▲	aaa_aaa 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It is a shame OP's comment is flagged. Talk about censorship

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theendisney 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Its true, all usually highly conplex world events are dumbed down to an insanely infantile level that carefully omits anything that may poorly reflect on corporate interests.

Also obvious is that all news is made in a short list of countries. Everywhere else the best you can hope for are terrible events.

You will only get opinions from a small list of talking heads.

One might imagine populating the media with nothing but professors. Each field has new stuff every week. In stead you get Adam Savage. The name isn't by acident.

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like_any_other 28 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> by voting

Not a single one of my examples was committed by the government (except if you count funding Carnegie Mellon and MIT). But even in cases when they are, voting rarely helps: https://www.woes.blog/p/tgr-democracy

> you don’t know what that dictatorship you so much yearn for

Re-read my sentence. I don't yearn for a dictatorship, I yearn to blunt and make obvious the current secret, subtle censorship regime.

> has in their bag for you

Is it jail?

“White Lives Matter” Slogan Earns Two Dutch Men Imprisonment for Racism - https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/nether...

Activist ran race-hate sticker library, court told - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51zn2l33r9o -Stickers with text like "It's OK to be White" and "We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066". For which he was later convicted and jailed - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-68448867

I repeat - you agree with the regime. You're floating in the river, letting it carry you where it pleases, while telling those swimming upstream that there is no current, nothing to struggle against.

	▲	geraneum 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Not a single one of my examples was committed by the government. Interesting! How did all of these social media companies made a 180 suddenly after power shifts in Washington? > You're floating in the river,… Of course but this doesn’t have any bearing on what I said. We are talking about severity and type of censorship not its meaning.