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Drain Todger said:
The usual suspects are already whining about decentralization, which means we need more of it.
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Like I said, corporations clearly miss when the only mass media was run by them, and of course they were limited by government regulations. Despite the nostalgia for decades like the '70s, '80s, and even the '90s (even though the internet was starting then), trends then in at least America were still mostly or exclusively influenced by mass media. That is, what corporations and marketing decided was cool and hip. Not to mention the influence they had over people's opinions and views, like with MSM news. Anything against mainstream views was normally considered fringe, and maybe distributed on the likes of photocopied flyers and public access TV that almost no one watched.

Then internets got big by the '00s, and it seems big business didn't like it. By 2015-ish, "social media" and "social justice" just so happened to get mainstream. "Free speech" was a given in pre-internet America, because there wasn't really any widespread public speech the "little people" could use? Now free speech can be seen as "fascist" and "a threat to Our Democracy" in Current Year USA.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
I just want to talk about things that interest me. I want to talk about geo politics, politics in general, US law, funny legal cases, and I want to do it in a setting where some feral imbecile with moderating power will not IP range ban me for no discernable reason. I want to do it in a setting where everyone knows who is saying what while still preserving some modicum of anonymity. Where Everyone knows the "Characters" of the debate, but also knows there is a wall of fire between the real life person and the persona.

I want the forums of my childhood. I want what has been scoured by hook, crook, and force from the internet. I want what I had for my children.

I am here not because I hate Transgendered people. I honestly don't give a shit if someone wants to cut their balls off. You do you. Bro. I am not here because I hate minorities. In actuality my real life work puts me in repeated contact with people of socio-economic means, and the common thread that emerges is me and them hate the exact same people for the exact same reasons. Reasons and people redacted.

All I want is a place where I can engage, and talk, and not have to worry about cancellation, getting fired, or having my random musings rehashed in a board room as part of a struggle session. The Kiwi Farms is one of the last places left that allows for this sort of thing, and it infuriates me to no end how belligerently it is being attacked. I just want to talk and every DDoS attack, every time its forced to migrate, its like my own tongue is being cut out.

When all records come to account, let this be one them. I do not hate people for what they are. But I do hate the people attempting to cut my tongue. I hate them as individuals, and I hate them for what they are. If their goal is to lessen the amount of hate in the world, they have failed.
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Have you considered using 4chan?
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Like I said, corporations clearly miss when the only mass media was run by them, and of course they were limited by government regulations. Despite the nostalgia for decades like the '70s, '80s, and even the '90s (even though the internet was starting then), trends then in at least America were still mostly or exclusively influenced by mass media. That is, what corporations and marketing decided was cool and hip. Not to mention the influence they had over people's opinions and views, like with MSM news. Anything against mainstream views was normally considered fringe, and maybe distributed on the likes of photocopied flyers and public access TV that almost no one watched.

Then internets got big by the '00s, and it seems big business didn't like it. By 2015-ish, "social media" and "social justice" just so happened to get mainstream. "Free speech" was a given in pre-internet America, because there wasn't really any widespread public speech the "little people" could use? Now free speech can be seen as "fascist" and "a threat to Our Democracy" in Current Year USA.
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I remember back in the mid-00s when old media were whining about the rise of the blogosphere and freelance journalism without accuracy, credibility, or accountability. They really didn't like it that a bunch of volunteer muckrakers were springing up and suddenly having audiences in the thousands, without any paycheck or any affiliation to existing networks and their "journalistic practices" (read: the shit scripts fed to the mainstream media by Langley).

 
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