@AlanRMacLeod @Indiegogo This isn’t a platform dispute. It’s planetary authoritarianism without uniforms—platforms as tribunals, “neutrality” its asphyxiation regime, payment processors its executioners. What once required secret police now requires terms of service. What is it? Pre-emptive silencing.
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John Robb In the future, meaningful dissent may never be allowed to form in opposition to a swarm due to corporate efforts to control and confine public debate. We're close to that, but apparently, not there yet. Depends what you mean by 'meaningful'. The extensive de-platforming, financial and otherwise, of independent media organizations and individuals questioning the official version of reality, is already well-advanced. @johnpilger @MintPressNews@Consortiumnews :@pmarca I predict essentially identical censorship/deplatforming policies across all layers of the legacy Internet stack. Client-side & server-side ISPs, cloud platforms, CDNs, payment networks, client OSs, browsers, email clients. With only rare exceptions. The pressure is intense.
@NorrieMacQueen Traditional analysis would say "media serves state power." What we're seeing is more insidious—an interlocking, supranational, ideological order converging in German, US, UK, French, and other Western state-media complexes. Synchronized narrative enforcement at a planetary scale.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: Exactly. The functional totalitarianism of an interlocking, global, techno-industrial control-complex serving the weaponized exceptionalism of elite structures of power profitably and militantly vested in a form of Final Solution to unmanageable social tensions and inequalities. 2/ It's now endemic, of course, the devastating obscenity of a global militarist-media complex wedded through pen and sword to a universalized form of psychotic exceptionalism and its diabolical consecration of a terror war endlessly targeting internal scapegoat and foreign foe.