They're Beginning to Exact Blatant Censorship

[JR11]

I've been experiencing outright censorship of tempered, sensible minded responses standing in opposition to Maga commentary, even while said commentaries are gross displays of contentious hate speech operating from lies and ignorance. I've been experiencing this on the MSN platform article commentaries. This is something I would normally keep to myself about, but the moment calls to speak out about it like the impulse for survival.

It's important to deliniate behavioral tendencies here. Surely some of you who practice restraint can recognise the kind of opposition we face. We're talking about the kind of undeveloped character (maga base) that sets out in vindictive ways to 'combat' what might stand to be a thorn in their sides. We're talking about truthfulness, goodwill and good intention vs pride, the ill-disposed and vengeful attitude. What I'm getting at here is, I honestly believe maga base enthusiasts do band together to enact vindictive actions against other posters by way of reporting. They do have a strong sense of community, but an even stronger sense of tribalism.

Platform setups likely make use of automated action-oriented responses to reports. If there are enough reports, you may find yourself censored speechless. Does anyone have any illuminating replies that might shed light on this matter?

This is what we've been facing for the last 10 years in this Trumpian troll uprising. Communications have been corrupted by the very essence of fascistic overlay. The nice guys finish last only because the fascist mindset is deceptive, fights dirty and opportunistically cheats without conscience.

They've been demonizing us. They've rendered us inhuman and unworthy of consideration in the minds of the Maga base. I'm talking about the WWG1WGA demographic. What's so disheartening and demoralizing is how myself and others can practice axioms like compassion and reverence of a higher order of being and human understanding only to be dismissed by swine on the open channel of discourse; but the part that really hurts is when our leadership and moderating officials side with the chaos and swine mentality because it's currently being used by the capitalists to great effect.

There's going to be a forceful whitewashing of the internet to remove vital truths and promote disinformation. It's going to be a concerted effort to suffocate any and all of Trumps detractors as his heartless clown-world regime attempts to set the standards.

Elon and his network of sources that have been systematically buying up major hubs of the internet, evidently have this kind of thing in mind. Look at what he did to Twitter. That was an operation.

[cynical_idealist]

1. reality hacking

thanks for your report.
the corruption of the data sphere is devastating

[live love laugh]

2. That's been going on it's just intensified because the pot is near the boiling point.

[allegorical oracle]

3. Authoritarian practices to the core. Strongarm your way into office with lies and false

promises, then use the legal system and a raft of executive orders to stifle dissent and muzzle the opposition.

[hay rick]

4. Global Engagement Center was just defunded.

The GEC has been tracking foreign sources of disinformation for the State Department since 2016.

[JR11]

6. Informational warfare has been in full swing these last 10 years

They've moved from organized, bold-faced gaslighting into in-your-face action. It was glaringly apparent to me 5 years back that this 'movement' was indirectly threatening those supporting strong democratic values with physical altercation and actual life and death warfare. Their objective was to psychologically break those who stand in their way or civil war. Well, were at the point where the line was drawn; and like the Heritage Foundation CEO Kevin Roberts said: "We are in the process of the 2nd American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be".

I don't know statistically as much about democrats in relation to their position on the rampant gun culture of the rightwing, but I'm assuming it's not nearly as prevalent. I do know that there are organized/semi-organized militia in the thousands at this point on the right, along with untold amounts of avg joe's with AR-15's. Unless our military protects unarmed civilians, I do have concerns about how scenarios could unfold. It's sickening to think our shared reality could quickly turn into a nightmare. I just would like to know we had adequate defensive measures, and I'm not sure we do.

What is the radical left anyway... I mean in the eyes of someone like Kevin Roberts?
He's talking about LGBTQ and racial issues like the very existence of resistance to the tyranny of the rightwing, and threats to reverse human rights, isn't a valid concern. He's intimating that they're sub-human. It's Roberts vision that's not only fascist and dangerous, it's anti-human! In a nutshell, he wants a white Christian nationalists America that subdues the races and religions of the world.

Their evangelical "advisors" talk about spiritual warfare...

good grief!

[58Sunliner]

5. I joined a forum for expats and the same thing is being done there. They are outnumbered, but it is just disgusting.

Russian disinfo.

[snot]

7. Imho,

censorship power is one of the most important and lethal kinds there is, and it doesn't matter who has it; and it will like any other power corrupt anyone who holds it. The best check-and-balance on it is to forego building the apparatuses for censorship (since those can change hands and/or even if they don't, corrupt those who retain control over them), break up informational monopolies, and bear with the risks and annoyances of a free marketplace of ideas, because free speech is still the worst system ever invented, except for all the others.