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Also, when you look at the issue of internet censorship and the controll of the flow of information for example, who the fuck even talks about that anymore? You have twitter/x which now is supposed to be free speech, but it's not, it's less restricted than late Dorsey twitter, still controlled, and plagued by it's updoot shit mechanisms, algorithmic siloing, shit like block abuse, etc. It's not a good "public space". Youtube strangely recently brought back a couple of channels that they'd banned years ago, but that's only 2. Recently looked for a comedy video on youtube that had been up for fucking years, and it was banned, because there were naughty words. The censorship is entrenched in that platform and it won't stop being manipulated. If they really want to change they are going to have to do big stuff. As a rule, if you can't upload a video in which you are saying any slur you want and be algorithmically unhindered, it tells you all you need to know, it tells you there's not prinicple of free speech, so it's useless, it's trash, and it means you aren't free. 4chan used to be something closer to a public space. You can pretty much say whatever here, and in the past it was organic. It was probably the largest real place on the internet, but interest groups, agencies, etc, saw how effective it was and psyopped it. You can see information about this in the link I posted, but it's a known thing, it should be obvious. This place has become manipulated. I watched this site, and the big boards on it go to shit. Memes have become the hegemony and thought is downstream from it, and what is that? Monopoly on thought. Real discussion, real views, real thought, were rugpulled years ago.
I won't say good things happening is emphatically impossible, but I do not buy that we are on the good path right now.
