It seems like something akin to witchcraft crazes on a truly horrifying scale.
The Malleus Maleficarum was a runaway 'hit' just after the printing press was invented. It's comically evil and while not fascism as we'd say it is today, damned if the methods of torture, psuedo-trial, and presumptions of guilt aren't mirrored in fascism (among others).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum#Popularity...
aka people communicating as they have for thousands of years. People love making up stories and spreading them. We need to stop blaming software for human nature.
Nothing new under the sun.
Can’t understand what this means. Are you saying the liberal forums are full of people who are struggling with family members who are deluded by WhatsApp based fake news?
I think there's lots of blame to go on companies like Cambridge analytica. That tech is literally a weapon of mass destruction.
Drops lots of bombs on civilians in the middle east.
Make a ton of money for shareholders from healthcare.
Ignore, or pay only lip service to, the crimes against humanity of corrupt regimes like Israel, Saudi Arabia, China.
Wholeheartedly support the MIC.
For profit prisons.
Housing cost crisis.
Failing infrastructure.
Small stories get through here and there. But no media companies are giving the ruling class a hard time about these things. Though They're happy to spend hours every day shitting on trump. Might that just be a distraction from these dire issues we can track by the coffins behind them
CA literally didn’t do anything that FB itself didn’t do, and was praised for doing in the previous election cycle. They just did it for the “wrong” side.
[0] https://www.dw.com/en/indian-court-kashmir-indefinite-intern...
[1] https://www.medianama.com/2019/12/223-internet-shutdown-up-k...
1. Those who value privacy over security
2. Those who value security over privacy
No matter which side any government tilts towards, even if its a reasonably balanced approach, the other side will complain about it.
This sort of comparision can be made across the spectrum of the news media. They are smarter than outright jailing journalists.
IIRC the ONE time Modi did have a question session without being in control, it was a disaster.
And of this fact, there is not the slightest self awareness or questioning from the reporters or heads of news channels.
Essentially if you even know of them, you are not part of the mainstream audience.
To draw a gender-parallel, if it occurs at the level of head of household, it's called male-chauvinism. If it occurs at level of religion, it is called patriarchy.
To draw a leader-parallel, if it occurs at level of subreddit, it's called mod-abuse. If it occurs at level of government, it's called fascism.
They all represent the same thing - power/control gone to head.
And it is ironically hilarious how a subreddit that bans/censors/tramples opposing/minority views constantly criticizes the government of the same.
This is a big issue with mass media in India that many don’t realize or want to realize. Between — a) most of the mainstream media houses (except a few) not asking tough questions (but supporting the government for everything), b) the Supreme Court ignoring important cases and not hearing them for years and c) the amount of fake news spread through WhatsApp — the liberal forums in India are filled with stories of how people are losing relationships or finding it difficult to digest the fact that their loved ones are close minded bigots.
Twitter has become a cesspool of bots, political party “IT Cells” and people copy pasting the same messages and hashtags, while WhatsApp has become the main source of truth (actually falsehood) for most people.