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Re:Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify w... by mlnj on Monday August 25, 2025 @06:15AM (#45012275)
The only sources of information we currently see about protests happening across the US are by small broadcasters. There is plenty of news that is being systematically being suppressed by the top-down information chain because it is so effective in clamping down dissent.

IMO, free flowing information still remains the best safeguard against tyranny.

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Re:Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify w... by amelius on Monday August 25, 2025 @06:26AM (#45012323)
But the tyranny we're seeing today is arguably a result of individual broadcasters ...
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Re:Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify w... by MangoToupe on Monday August 25, 2025 @09:38AM (#45013722)
Maybe very, very indirectly—it seems a lot easier to just blame the people currently wielding power, either in government or in business.
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Re:Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify w... by miningape on Monday August 25, 2025 @10:11AM (#45014060)
Doesn't this imply that what we're seeing today and calling tyranny is more free than what came before? (anyone can become an individual broadcaster)

Put another way - is this a case of the tyrannical calling the free tyrants? If Orwell or Huxley taught us anything it's that this how a state maintains its illusion/power - manipulating language and perception to make their control seem necessary/liberating.

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Re:Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify w... by amelius on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @05:00AM (#45024065)
I'd say no, because this new free world came from the old world, so the latter must have been free.
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Re:Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify w... by parineum on Monday August 25, 2025 @10:27AM (#45014228)
That's because we're not seeing _actual_ tyranny. Maybe a would-be tyrant, tryannical tendencies or a slide toward tyranny, however you might want to phrase it, but it's not tyranny.

Individual broadcasters are also the largest detractors along with supporters.

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Re:Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify w... by vizzier on Monday August 25, 2025 @01:39PM (#45016491)
This looks a lot like tyranny to me. Small scale and many may feel its justified but ICE appears to be acting repeatedly in defiance of lawful orders here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04ryk6ed5lo

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Re:Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify w... by ok_dad on Monday August 25, 2025 @02:06PM (#45016862)
When is it tyranny? When he send the military into 19 states under federal control? Or does it have to be when he’s actually ordering the killings of his opponents?
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Re:Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify w... by vizzier on Monday August 25, 2025 @02:35PM (#45017284)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-executive-order-flag-burnin...

You can't even make this shit up.

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Re:Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify w... by ok_dad on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @03:20PM (#45030985)
Exactly, we’re being downvoted by fans of tyrants.
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Re:Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify w... by squigz on Monday August 25, 2025 @07:49AM (#45012826)
Interesting that I read about protests in America all the time. Maybe The Associated Press is just a small broadcaster?
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