mudra Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:45 am
Auriel Clary ( fb post)
The big issue with the censorship debate is when social media becomes a monopoly, as with any monopoly. This is in regards to freedom of speech, as the social media giants have been firming up their control and oversight of our online social discourse. This is also why the president of Mexico just said what he did in terms of regulation with social media, and the danger of what is happening. The dystopian novels, countless I could list, all speak to this in detail. I'd be pulling your memes from the great thinkers who actually dedicated significant amount of time to analyzing these issues and using fiction to get the ideas out there more gracefully than if it was stated as so. And you can use whatever memes you want, whatever arguments you choose, because I allowed myself to develop my critical thinking skills to discern what I experience. I have zero interest in giving that power to another, especially when their agenda behind that censorship is clearly biased, and not rooted in matter of fact. A peer reviewed paper does not mean something is the law of science (as there can be agenda behind that too with who pays the research), and states that this is fact, to in turn censor other information. This clearly has happened in history with both Terrain Theory and Lumiferious Aether Theory. This final example is an extreme of how the censorship is being utilized, with science psychologically weaponized, and giving rise to something very dangerous, that the majority of the public is starting to invite in. I think it's less of an issue of protecting the masses from inaccurate information, and more of an issue of education that promotes critical thinking within the individual as we've been moving into the zombie like culture of Netflix and suppressing our collective pain, as we erode the sovereign thought processes with dumbed down entertainment and false narratives of fear and bad science. This fuels the groupthink and mob psychology that can go in both the extremes of the left and the right. At the end of the day, the best thing we can all do is think openly for ourselves, and respect what others think. That does not mean you have to agree to them, and you can still always influence them to think differently with civility and respect. This is Being Human 101.
