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Coco McShevitz's avatar

Never refer to this abomination as anything but the Ministry of Truth, bad branding can sink this thing faster than a million high minded Tweets and Substack posts.

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Frank Lee's avatar

I am done being civil to my old liberal friends who have adopted this illiberal view that it is fine to empower government and large corporations to cancel, de-platform and ban speech they claim is disinformation while they spew the majority of disinformation.

There is a key to understand what is driving this. If you are left, you run on emotions. You feel first and then develop a narrative to deflect from the fact that you are basing your opinion on feelings and not facts. Then you call everything outside of that narrative as disinformation. And because you cannot effectively think outside your box of feelings, this all seems right, moral and rational to you.

But people that cannot do an honest self-assessment of feelings over fact are in fact dysfunctional. They are the last people we should be giving the keys to any disinformation power.

It is an "inmates running the asylum" situation... and we cannot let it be.

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