Did censorship work? - There's been a shift the past few years

[PaleTay]

There was a shift in around 2014 when women became much more feminist, but there was also a shift in 2018 a little after the mainstream internet started censoring everything where people became much more loving of celebrities and government bootlickers. They aren't all bots, and way more people just malfunction if you bring up surface level issues like Hong Kong.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

If by pushing fringe opinions and ideas into obscurity and artificially inflating things like celebrity opinion to the flock, I'd say yes it did work.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

And then one day, for no reason at all...

 

[Thomas Highway]

Paid Chinaman post. Please ban.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The powers that shouldn't be think that by censoring "wrongthink" - and pushing propaganda wherever possible - they can magically change everyone's thinking to the "right side of history". Seeing as how "go woke, go broke" is a thing, I don't think it's quite working.

 

[Tree]

Yes, the medium through which the Streisand effect operates quickly saturates and becomes minuscule to the gains made in controlling the frame in which people are thinking. Even people who know everything nowdays is propaganda still cannot keep themselves from being influenced by it. Even if they will never accept what it's trying to sell, they'll be arguing with some symptom rather than the cause if they don't go out of their way to learn the truth, which most people don't.

Censorship works, and the crazy Catholics of the satanic panic were right about everything. We should have let them censor anything they wanted; now instead the demons get to decide what we don't see.

 

[Retired Junta Member]

Censorship works wonders when implemented correctly. A great example of well executed censorship is building a wall of approved contents so might and tall that you can’t see behind.

 

[Sage In All Fields]

anyone with half a brain knows censorship works and it's what winners do historically, free speech is retarded and just emboldens your enemy at your own expense until they eventually gain the power to censor you

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

Censorship does work , preventing the flow conspiracy information to mainstream audience preventing different ideas instead ones from TV news and shows or high rate social media posts.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

The powers that shouldn't be think that by censoring "wrongthink" - and pushing propaganda wherever possible - they can magically change everyone's thinking to the "right side of history". Seeing as how "go woke, go broke" is a thing, I don't think it's quite working.

That's pretty optimistic...

 

[ToroidalBoat]

That's pretty optimistic...

Well at least some can escape being bullshitted into believing wokeism.

 

[mindlessobserver]

They didn't change anyone minds. They are just trying to pretend there is no more opposition to the status quo as established by our benevolent corporate overlords. The funny thing is that because they have been so successful at silencing dissent they seem to believe the majority of their societies want the shit they are shoveling down their throats. They are seriously deluding themselves and I fear they won't realize the truth until it's far, far too late to stop what is going to happen.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Streissand effect is mostly a myth. Yes it can attract a lot of extra attention when you scream "NO NO DON'T SHARE THAT".

But when old media and new media collaborate with governments to silence certain types of dissent, they can be very very effective in squashing out 99% of the conversation surrounding a topic.

And when you manage to do that, the number of various experts who see it and might leak relevant insider information approaches 0 pretty quickly.

 

[WhatIsThePunchline]

Work and work.

It helped get the democrats into power 2020.
It has also made the left insane.

 

[Ishtar]

Absolutely works, (((they))) wouldn't advocate for it if it didn't.

 

[stupid orc]

no it doesn't, i will just find more creative ways of posting faggot in the youtube comments.

 

[PFM]

I fear they won't realize the truth until it's far, far too late to stop what is going to happen.

Please, indulge me...

 

[Kane Lives]

Streissand effect is mostly a myth. Yes it can attract a lot of extra attention when you scream "NO NO DON'T SHARE THAT".

But when old media and new media collaborate with governments to silence certain types of dissent, they can be very very effective in squashing out 99% of the conversation surrounding a topic.

And when you manage to do that, the number of various experts who see it and might leak relevant insider information approaches 0 pretty quickly.

IMO, it works very effectively as a blunt force instrument to squash wrongthink ideas out of the mainstream quickly. If you can't disseminate information to the masses, the sheeple wouldn't even be aware of it.

The flip side is now those ideas are being driven underground, and the boys in blue wouldn't have a way to track it easily. How do you know how popular is an idea, when you don't know how many believe in it in the first place? I'll be the first to admit that censorship and propaganda in the modern era works scarily well. You can just see the COVID mania in action. But there's simply no telling how many are just mouthing catechism for appearances versus how many are true believers. I suspect we may never know, until something inevitably shakes the status quo.

 

[Lemmingwise]

But there's simply no telling how many are just mouthing catechism for appearances versus how many are true believers. I suspect we may never know,

We won't know because it isn't relevant. Communist russia didn't give a shit whether you believed their lies. In fact, they degraded you with a constant stream of nonsense that you had to pretend was true. In that way you become complicit and corrupt yourself.

People need to see other people standing up, so they follow the example and do it too. When they see what we see now, where those who stand up get harassed, receive covert black pr campaigns as well as mainstream ones, then people start to self censor.

They're not really fundamentally after true believers (except in young people), they are after compliance and apathy.

 

[L50LasPak]

Censorship is always a temporary solution, and while you censor something in the short term you have to put some kind of effort into making the problem go away behind the scenes while you still have time and people don't quite know what to make of a situation. Obviously censorship works great for a singular event that can be covered up until the heat dies down, but for a continuous issue its different.

The part where censorship fails is when a new generation takes the controls of the media machine and assumes that once they've censored a problem, they've effectively deleted it. All they've done is hide it from public view; if nothing is done to fix the issue, it will continue to eat away at the fabric of society, even if not a single person makes the connection that the problem is the fault of the people in charge.