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   JA Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 00:42:49 JST JA Westenberg

   This is how modern oligarchs work. They don't burn books—they bury them in content. They don't silence the news—they reframe it as entertainment. They don't kill publishing—they make it appealing to a four-quadrant audience.

   https://www.theindex.media/democracy-dies-in-a-rebrand/

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     Arne Babenhauserheide (arnebab@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 02:16:13 JST Arne Babenhauserheide

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     @Daojoan sounds like the 50c army in China. How they acted, before they had the censorship tech in place with which they could prevent the spreading of unwanted thoughts at the root.