Censorship/Free Speech and Social Control Media
Social Control Media is about control. Who controls it? The owner/s, not the users. In the US, even TikTok is controlled by American oligarchs. They do whatever pleases them [1, 2] and they can get millions of people to work for them... for free. They 'curate' by banning, shadowbanning, "algorithms" (nowadays twisted as "AI") and so on. Y Combinator (YC) is at it again [1], as promoting Ponzi schemes is OK, yet mentioning some lawsuit is not OK. There is an effort to suppress critical information, even if based on "style" or "tone" or whatever (the issue isn't the tone, they don't want the substance to exist in any form).
Censorship isn't a new thing or some novel concept. On the Web, or "online", it is relatively new (because the Net and the Web didn't exist centuries again). It's important to have a grasp of how contemporary censorship works and how to tackle it. █
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Hacker News (Y-Combinator) censored Google/Debian astroturfing lawsuit
Misfits have gone to great lengths to try and have the topic censored. Therefore, it is vital for people to share it by email and direct messages. Don't rely on social control media platforms because they are compromised now.
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Collective power: Molly de Blanc, Nicolas Maduro & Debian become defendants in same federal courthouse
Controlling the media and quashing dissent is a common theme in rogue open source "communities" today.
In 2012, Sarah Gail Hunter, University of Georgia, published a masters thesis on the topic "Love and exploitation: personality cults, their characteristics, their creation, and modern examples". She chose three collectivists, Putin (Russia), Castro (Cuba) and Chavez (Venezuala).