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>>headal+(OP)
It seems like there is some serious disinformation/psych ops working overtime across the internet right now; the tone is weirdly hostile. I would hope people would question the motivation of obviously divisive rhetoric, but it's clear that is a resounding no. As they say, people always buy with their emotions.

I'm afraid the days of an open internet are quickly closing.

>>EVdotI+65
It seems like there is some serious disinformation/psych ops working overtime across the internet right now; the tone is weirdly hostile

As someone who has been online since the late 1980's, this sentence can easily apply increasingly to the Internet since around 2014 onwards.

I'm afraid the days of an open internet are quickly closing.

That ship sailed years ago. You're just not in one of the groups being actively censored or "good as lied about" yet.

>>stcred+Ph
What I'm talking about is "ACAB", Boogaloo, and other dehumanizing thinly veiled calls for violence against $PICKAGROUP. It's ramped way up recently: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=ACAB&geo=US

That's pretty unusual to be mainstream. This will be used for enacting policy, who knows what it is at this point, but it's not going to be "Oh you're shadow banned, kicked off a platform, or discredited by association". I'm talking about the lines of China; you can't say something against the powers that be, if you do, we'll ensure you are financially ruined or sent to jail kind.