Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine
by leesalminen on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:20PM
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This is why the us vs them dichotomy is so important to those in power. Dividing us is the only thing that keeps them in power. Unfortunately there are so many values of “us” and “them” now that it’s obscured the only definition that really matters.
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Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine
by Gene_Parmesan on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:51PM
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I agree 1000x. Noam Chomsky has a great quote about this from The Common Good:
"Now that ... workers are superfluous, what do you do with them? First of all, you have to make sure they don't notice that society is unfair and try to change that, and the best way to distract them is to get them to hate and fear one another."