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Master thread on the 2015-2022 closure of the Internet, the process by which every major Internet platform went from broadly open with a few basic guidelines to strict narrative enforcement, often with the collaboration of govts and outsourcing moderation power to NGOs. (twitter.com)
posted 89 days ago by SophiesBoyfriend 89 days ago by SophiesBoyfriend +58 / -0
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– SophiesBoyfriend [S] 23 points 89 days ago +23 / -0

All worth reading:

In 2015, Reddit, like YouTube, had almost no content policy beyond banning illegal activity, doxxing, harassment, and involuntary or underage pornography. By 2020, Reddit had purged political dissent from the site.

In 2015, Twitter was "the free speech wing of the free speech party" according to CEO Jack Dorsey, even avoiding collaboration with the NSA (unlike Google, Facebook). By 2019 it was one of the most censored, monitored, and controlled social media networks in the world.

The most important platform to be closed off 2017-2019 was YouTube. Before 2017, YouTube was a very open platform, with easy monetization and almost no moderation of legal content. By the end of 2019, thoughtcrime (anything to the right of Ben Shapiro) was thoroughly purged.

Seeing this happen in real time was immensely blackpilling and the fact that it isn't even widely-known and discussed that this happened (almost entirely in the last 11 years) is a travesty. "Closure of the Internet" is 1000 times worse than McCarthyism ever was.

https://x.com/arctotherium42/status/2037324995852923054

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– The_Shadow_of_Intent 16 points 88 days ago +16 / -0

Seeing this happen in real time was immensely blackpilling and the fact that it isn't even widely-known and discussed that this happened (almost entirely in the last 11 years) is a travesty. "Closure of the Internet" is 1000 times worse than McCarthyism ever was.

Naturally. I suppose I'm next in line to beat the dead horse today, but McCarthyism, along with the play about the Salem Witch Trials that it spawned, was a specious story dramatized to take the heat off communists by elite Jews, since many of them were communist. McCarthy was a bit of a loose cannon, but he didn't invent the House Un-American Activities committee. HUAC had been investigating communists for decades, as they were a massive problem.

The next generation of these people then proceeded to take over the internet.

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– BuckGerbil 10 points 88 days ago +10 / -0

he didn't invent the House Un-American Activities committee.

Indeed. It's even right there in the name. McCarthy was a Senator. The fact that he is always blamed for it shows how heavy the propaganda has been about him.

Also, the declassified Venona Project showed that McCarthy was right.

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– dylan 9 points 88 days ago +9 / -0

You mean to say SENATOR McCarthy wasn’t the guy who ran the HOUSE Un-American Activities Committee???????

Color me SHOCKED

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– ActiveLurker 5 points 88 days ago +5 / -0

Someone is going to do the research one day and find out that witch trials were completely justified. Ed Dutton kind of already did it but I didn't find his podcast on it comprehensive enough.

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– The_Shadow_of_Intent 2 points 88 days ago +2 / -0

There's actually books about it already that prove that communists were infesting Hollywood and HUAC was pestering them. I think David Horowitz may have wrote one of them, as he was basically a Jewish communist who defected

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– redneonglow 1 point 87 days ago +1 / -0

"Closure of the Internet" is 1000 times worse than McCarthyism ever was.

I remember Alex Jones once comparing our digital totalitarianism to McCarthyism, saying that under McCarthyism you still had the ability to face your accusers.

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