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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by lazide on Friday March 11, 2022 @01:37PM (#30644108)
That view can only be supported by false nostalgia or a VERY selective reading of the material and history of the time IMO.

It was a mess, widespread censorship, corruption, and yellow news was common, and it was a period of extreme social turmoil.

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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by ska on Friday March 11, 2022 @04:39PM (#30646359)
We're talking early to mid 90's. I agree it was bad on all those aspects - but some at least are arguably notably worse now. How it nets out isn't obvious.
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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by lazide on Friday March 11, 2022 @05:08PM (#30646619)
Oops, I thought I was in the comment thread I replied to that was explicitly calling out the 60’s.

The 90’s have tons of examples of manipulation (Gulf War 1?), as do the 80’s, 70’s, etc etc.

It’s hard to contextualize any of that without being embedded in it though. What age were you then?

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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by ska on Friday March 11, 2022 @05:14PM (#30646690)
If you are talking about mine, it never did. I haven't edited it, it refers to 30 years ago or 200. The one I was replying to didn't either, at least when I read it.

Perhaps you meant something upstream or a sibling comment?

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