• thefatone@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    True, there are limits to freedom of speech. But aren’t you disturbed by the control that people in society are exerting on the narratives that we are allowed to question? With or without government involvement. I’m talking about big techmedia here, and the power they have to set the narrative entirely with or without the government involved. I mean the tools that they put into play to stop right wing misinformation (not saying most of it isn’t misinformation) can be just flipped over on the left when the left starts threatening institutions down the road.

    • muddi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Then the left should continue to build decentralized alternatives. Dual power is the only practical solution for when institutions are captured by reactionaries to suppress the left.

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        1 year ago

        this has to include more than platforms for people to talk on. dual power must include mutual aid and mutual defense if it’s to actually live up to the name. platforms to talk online with comrades are nice and all but it doesn’t on it’s own build any kind of base of power.

        • muddi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          1 year ago

          Absolutely true, social media presence is hardly the material conditions necessary for a revolution. The structures to be replaced run deeper than which website you use