It's my fear this locus of control or suppression of voices is part of the reason we have an increase in violent rhetoric.
I learned an important lesson in 2016, my worldviews are not shared in America outside of big cities. It forced me to realize that I didn't even know people disagreed so fiercely because of media conglomerate created echo bubbles.
Re:Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
by ausvisaissues on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:05PM
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Don't for a moment think it is just a city/rural thing (with a bunch of conservative country bumkins).
Many people having non-leftwing ideas simply hide it. Since most workplaces have become politicised and hostile to conservative/right/slightly right of center views, people just hide it. Some people (including me) even engage in fake virtue signalling.
Re:Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:09PM
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> Don't for a moment think it is just a city/rural thing (with a bunch of conservative country bumkins).
Polling (both opinion polling and actual elections) show that it is very strongly an urban-vs-other thing.
Re:Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
by ausvisaissues on Friday August 18, 2017 @08:11AM
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I said "just" a rural urban thing. No doubt there are more leftwingers/liberals in cities. But it is not nearly as uniform as your experience would suggest.
Polling also said that Hillary would win the election, and brexit won't happen. People, including me, lie to pollsters.
"It's not in CloudFlare's philosophy to just take down sites because management doesn't agree with the content,"
...unless the press tells them what their philosophy needs to be? The lesson is that no capitalist company can remain neutral, today. Which has good and bad consequences. It's amazing how the small number of media conglomerates have solidified their political power alongside their commercial power. A true locus of control in Western society.