what's happening in brazil is a microcosm of what's happening everywhere: legacy media models are failing. the newspapers and television shows that were once "the media" have lost share, lost trust, and lost viability. so they cling to government and not only offer to act as censors and water carriers, but positively beg to be. it's the only way they can stay in business. they are wards of the state. lackeys. henchmen. it's all that's left to them. they favor censorship because it underpins an oligopoly that allows them to persist. the modern informational sphere and agora is moving to a reputation economy. it's not about credentials or platforms. it's about who you can trust. every sick and dying statist system will seek to dominate media and censor those who oppose it. they will claim it's "for your safety" but this is not "protection" it's subjugation. and it's a race to the bottom. only ideas which cannot win hearts and minds in open and honest discourse resorts to gaslighting, propaganda, and suppression of dissent. hate speech, misinformation, and accusing everyone else of the very "interference" these groups so assiduously undertake is always the thin end of the wedge they use to get you to admit one deadly dangerous idea: that it's "OK to suppress speech if there is a good reason." this is the great lie, the trojan framing used to pull you over the line where you no longer have a speech right, only a privilege that can be revoked at need. once you surrender even one case, your right is gone. it's no longer yours, it's theirs. rights are binary. their either stand paramount to and sacrosanct from the state or they do not exist at all. and it's time we remembered this and started drawing the line and fighting for the first inch. censorship is the antithesis of civilization and of a free republic. the cure for wrong speech is always more speech.
what's happening in brazil is a microcosm of what's happening everywhere: legacy media models are failing. the newspapers and television shows that were once "the media" have lost share, lost trust, and lost viability. so they cling to government and not only offer to act as censors and water carriers, but positively beg to be. it's the only way they can stay in business. they are wards of the state. lackeys. henchmen. it's all that's left to them. they favor censorship because it underpins an oligopoly that allows them to persist. the modern informational sphere and agora is moving to a reputation economy. it's not about credentials or platforms. it's about who you can trust. every sick and dying statist system will seek to dominate media and censor those who oppose it. they will claim it's "for your safety" but this is not "protection" it's subjugation. and it's a race to the bottom. only ideas which cannot win hearts and minds in open and honest discourse resorts to gaslighting, propaganda, and suppression of dissent. hate speech, misinformation, and accusing everyone else of the very "interference" these groups so assiduously undertake is always the thin end of the wedge they use to get you to admit one deadly dangerous idea: that it's "OK to suppress speech if there is a good reason." this is the great lie, the trojan framing used to pull you over the line where you no longer have a speech right, only a privilege that can be revoked at need. once you surrender even one case, your right is gone. it's no longer yours, it's theirs. rights are binary. their either stand paramount to and sacrosanct from the state or they do not exist at all. and it's time we remembered this and started drawing the line and fighting for the first inch. censorship is the antithesis of civilization and of a free republic. the cure for wrong speech is always more speech.
@boriquagato "understand that censorship does not occur in a vacuum. It is a symptom of a worsening disease. It is an early indicator of the political repression to come." americanthinker.com/articles/2024/…
it's the literal undoing of the emergent order and positive law structure that builds a human society from the bottom up and that ensures that the structure remains human. that which is forced from the top down has no such safeguard and so becomes monstrous. those who would defend such structure and prerogative may only do so my preventing a society from knowing its own mind. this is why they censor.
"Marxists cannot square their practical failures with Marx’s theoretical promises yet stubbornly refuse to learn from the contradiction. Failed ideologues who push false visions of the future inevitably become more coercive and violent as failures pile up. This is Marxism’s lasting mark upon history — bloody stains and mass graves wherever it has been imposed."-J.B.Shurk
"What is happening in the West today is a concentrated push for global communism. We could bicker about precise definitions — whether we are under attack from Marxists, socialists, Leninists, Trotskyites, Maoists, or other “revolutionaries” — but the end goal is clear. A small group of global “elites” seek to use ideological and economic leverage to centralize political power and direct all human activity. They seek the abolition of private property. They seek absolute control over individual lives and local communities. They are rebuilding twentieth-century totalitarianism with the privacy-destroying surveillance technologies of the twenty-first century."