posted ago by dekachin ago by dekachin +4 / -5

this is just a rant and not very polished so...

The Left wants to create an unthinking consoomer information market where it alone sets the rules and controls the Overton window.

Not all "content moderation" is bad. Sometimes too much of the wrong content can drive people away. Spam is one example, but to use this sub as an example, Imp turning it into his personal war against women is a net negative for the sub. So is Chukna turning it into his personal war against Finland. The "Savior" moron who thinks he needs to share his idiotic "wisdom" with this sub no matter how many times he gets downvoted, blocked, and banned. By allowing the fringe to take over, you drive away the much much larger group of normies who don't really want anything to do with the fringe. Youtube and Twitter solve this issue easily by using the algo to boost popular content, which causes the fringe content to get lost and unseen. That's fine, as long as the boosting is politically neutral and follows business logic of maximizing views and site usage. Unfortunately, the Left has corrupted the algo to detract from profits in order to push their politics.

The Left wants NPCs who don't think for themselves, they just download the latest firmware update.

The Left already created this system and had it running for decades: the mainstream media. It was a small, elite group that they completely took over, which told everyone how to think, with great success. The internet threatened that system, so the Left needs to take over the internet platforms to maintain its system.

Fundamentally, bad/wrong speech is bad, but people don't agree on what speech is bad except for extreme cases like cp. Instead, the only reliable/fair way to identify what speech is good vs bad, true vs false, is to allow all speech to wage war openly through debate, and allow the people in aggregate to decide. The Left doesn't accept this, because they often lose. But since the Left has been indoctrinated to accept that their beliefs are Correct and their opponents are Wrong, when they lose, they don't accept the result, they say "those evil Right wingers tricked everyone with lies! if the system was fair, everyone would agree with me!" And so the Left needs to keep rigging the system in their favor to make it "fair" so the results match their expectations, which is that Left wing ideology is always correct and always wins, comrade.

The Left is self-aware enough to know that they can't "get away with" what they truly want deep down, which is North Korea-level enforced "Truth". So instead they attack the Right on speech battlefields the Left think they can cobble together a majority on: such as COVID "misinformation" or "hate speech", but of course, while they sell these ideas to moderates using extreme cases, as soon as they get the power to censor, they rapidly expand what fits under these concepts until they push it so far, they get blowback. Then they slow down a little bit and pretend to walk it back, then try again, over and over, biting and clawing away at anyone they disagree with, slowly eating away all opposition by default, knowing their opponents will tire and slowly give ground.

Thinking is hard, who's got time for that? Just get the short version, the pre-digested version. Your friends will think you're smart and well-informed in record time! Nobody wants to struggle with dissonance. Nobody wants to wrestle with difficult and controversial ideas. Nobody wants the horror of adopting the minority view. Just sit back, and we will tell you all the facts, and do all the analysis for you, and give you all the conclusions.

COVID wasn't made in a lab. The US government didn't pay the Chinese for gain of function experimentation on bat coronaviruses. The lockdowns were highly successful. Masks worked. Hand washing worked. The vaccine totally stopped transmission, justifying forcing it on unwilling people. Those who rejected the vaccine only did so for crazy, selfish right wing ideological reasons. It was right to fire them from their jobs to punish them for being bad people. Trump was the mastermind of a literal insurrection and attempt to overthrow the US government and end democracy. The insurrectionists on 1/6 literally tried to murder Congress and hang Mike Pence. And Trump did all this as an agent of Putin. Russia is the evil behind everything. BLM was mostly peaceful, and also rioting is the language of the unheard and good as long as black people do it. Black people are nice and law abiding and dindu, yet cops gun thousands of them down in the streets every year because racism. When you say a trans woman is a man, you are committing a literal murder. Drag queen story hour is wholesome family fun. Mutilating the genitals of little kids and pressuring them to identify as a different gender (so many to choose from! how can you pick just one?!) is critical medical assistance that is needed to save lives. When you refuse to wear the pride flag, you are an evil hateful bigot and should be canceled. Men bad. Whites bad. Women bad, but only if they don't like women with penises. The world will end by 2030 in hellfire unless you become vegan and buy an electric car (not tesla) NOW.