The problem with Censorship (and why it always backfires)
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We're living in a fusion reactor of propaganda. Video guy says they can't contain human nature, but with enough technology and science anything can be contained.
The dynasties of China maintained control for hundreds of years using primitive tools like a difficult to learn written language. Modern individualized propaganda can shift people from believing the Earth will burn from pollution to burning electric cars in a few months.
The tools and science for propaganda and control are unprecedented in history so "well it never worked before" isn't a reasonable argument.
China has one of the longest and most bloody histories of coups, revolutions and uprisings in the world.
The science and tools for perpetuating propaganda and control may be on a new level now, but so are the tools for challenging and circumventing it. The British government just passed the most extreme online censorship bill yet conceived, and everyone just started using VPNs to get around it. Brits are still protesting on the streets in unprecedented numbers.
That's probably because they also have one of the longest histories in the world.
That's what's called a tempest in a teapot. They've migrated hordes of savages into London and have rape gangs and they have you upset over nothing being censored if you prove you are of age.
These are the kinds of things that are the control. This is the machine in action.