(November 7, 2022 at 5:36 pm)Helios Wrote:Quote:Is there no third option? I'm not allowed to aspire for something better than those two awful choices for a society? I do not want to become more like Nazi Germany, but I also really, really don't want society becoming more like China with their social credit scores and censoring of speech.Yes because stopping Nazis leads to China........
It starts with stopping Nazis. Then the slippery slope, in a few short years, has led to the banning of your fav Vaush, and countless other lefties/socialists/libertarians, and so on. People on youtube now speak in code to avoid issues with the algorithm. Everyone is self censoring/ scared, and you can clearly see it. It has gotten to the point where my boy Devon Tracey is now personally emailing me his videos to my email account, because he was a hair away from getting booted off of Patreon. He went from my favourite youtuber, to my favourite Patreoner, to now my favourite.. um.. person who personally emails me his videos as if he was hiding bomb making instructions from the government or some shit.
If a news report was out there about Chinese government officials having a portal to ask for things online to be censored, everyone would see that this was obviously a bad thing. But because it's the US, you don't see the issue with it. Yes, the West is becoming more like China in some ways. We obviously are not in nearly as dire of a situation as their people are when it comes to rights and freedoms, but we're stepping in the wrong direction, and trying to imitate China's government in any form is bad news.
