I’ve been thinking that for 30 years.
Nothing yet. They’re actually getting worse.
I’ve been thinking that for 30 years.
Nothing yet. They’re actually getting worse.
Depends, but fair point.
gasp! But muh daddy ain’t know them flags, and we fear the unknown!
Plus they rejekted teh Jeezus!! Graar!
Has the potential. It’s another case of having a technical solution, but the implementation of it is the real problem, and the real hurdle.
It’s a good question. However, I think it’s been answered before by about 30 or 40 years.
The answer is that media consumption and propaganda are often exactly the same thing and we don’t limit, police, suspect, or explain media consumption at all. That’s usually considered to be a good thing, but I think we see in the age of TikTok that it’s gone way too far, and we need to have basic media literacy as an elementary school-level learning.
That’s something that none of trumps supporters have had. I think what’s working in that situation (the right wing blogosphere, etc.) is some bastardized and weaponized version of “media literacy” that is strictly focused on not believing standard authority, and only believing the “new” authority.
Which is itself a very old ploy.
John is way sus.
Oh yeah, Jan 6th when trump staged a coup to overthrow the duly elected government. Right, right.
Hey hows that Presidential race going. Tied?!? What the crispy fried fuck?!
In July, before the latest WP Engine blowup, an Automattic employee wrote in Slack that they received a direct message from Mullenweg sending them an identification code for Blind, an anonymous workplace discussion platform, which was required to complete registration on the site. Blind requires employees to use their official workplace emails to sign up, as a way to authenticate that users actually work for the companies they are discussing. Mullenweg said on Slack that emails sent from Blind’s platform to employees’ email addresses were being forwarded to him. If employees wanted to log in or sign up for Blind, they’d need to ask Mullenweg for the two-factor identification code. The implication was that Automattic—and Mullenweg—could see who was trying to sign up for Blind, which is often a place where people anonymously vent or share criticism about their workplace.
Kids - when the website demands your real identification, it’s not anonymous, ok. Pick a lane - do you want to be anonymous or do you want to post on this “Blind” site.
Here’s an example of my suggestion:
Blind: sign up with your genuine work email so you can talk shit about your company, bosses, and co-workers!
Me: closes window
How many millions did that cost you, Florida?