What is going on in the US with the canceling of Jimmy Kommel’s TV show? From what I read all he said was that the shooter might be right wing and that MAGA is desperately trying to pin it on the left. That appears exactly mirroring MAGAs messaging who have been blaming the left very hard everywhere, including the President. How is what he does wrong according to his employers but what MAGA is doing OK? I honestly don’t understand the difference
Trump the the Republicans are, one-by-one, silencing their most vocal critics and dissenters. They started with news media, then they moved to entertainment media, and from there they will move on to corporate social media next. This is state control of media and blatant censorship of criticism. End of story.
I’m not even exaggerating when I say that the Fediverse will be the last bastion of free speech and political criticism on the internet, because the same pressures that Trump and the Republicans can apply to Paramount and Disney, they can also apply to Reddit, Meta, X, and Oracle. Corporate will ALWAYS capitulate to fascism–they aren’t even bothering to fight back–because the only thing they care about in the slightest is money.
.world does the same narrative shaping that legacy-media, facebook, reddit, etc. does and the free speech & political criticism you’re hoping will live on will do so in the same way it does now; buried into suppression.
“Fediverse”, not lemmy.world. These hosts can come and go and that makes them slightly more resilient to this sort of censorship. Not each, but as a whole.
very true and i’m glad you’ve pointed this out.
however i expect defederation to be leveraged to this end like it already has.
That hasn’t been my experience so far, but luckily for you, me, and everyone else… The fediverse doesn’t rely on any single instance as an unquestionable single channel of information.
If your takeaway from my comment is to criticize the content of any one server (or even any one software), you’re missing the point of open source software entirely.
The fediverse’s growth has come at the expense of it’s invisiblity to the attention of the us empire and; like TikTok; measures have been implemented on the fediverse, like I described earlier.
Defederation has splintered the fediverse and now the information that used to be shared in niche subreddits are only shared on the smallest of those fediverse splinters, while the people in the largest splinters complaint that the fediverse lacks content like the subreddits do.
I foresee those splinters turning into locked silos once the empire’s measures have reached an more advanced stage of development like TikTok did last week, becoming some sort of reverse defensive wall where the mainstream closes thier eyes, stick their finger in their ears, and loudly yell la la la; but en mass. Lol