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The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust
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this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
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what's worse is that gringos have their heads so far up in their asses that they dont even realize this kind of shit. and freak out when you try to propose something neutral.
The fact that people in the west don't understand there is propaganda in the west has always been astounding to me.
Maybe I’m looking at it more from the infrastructure than the content, but how could you make it more neutral?
well, here on lemmy for example when it comes to moderation we try to not follow the western narrative/norm when it comes to certain topics. i ban people constantly for expressing views that express normalized support for us imperialism, whereas in reddit you'd get that force-fed into your cerebellum even if you dont want to, in every community, all the time. generally this isn't so much an infrastructure issue, although it is, since us owned platforms push their view, they become mainstraim and the norm, and that way the Western Way is now the default. but rather how you engage as a community.
Okay so it’s more content, not infrastructure.
That's not what was said. More isn't better when it's just more noise, more CIA narrative.
Not “more content” but the issue is more so with content, not the infrastructure. I was focusing on the delivery mechanism (networking, routers, protocols, etc)
Excellent, thanks for the clarification. I'll think about that, because those things have their own foibles.