The fact that all this social media manipulation isn't front and center in public consciousness really tells you about the state of ""Free Speech"" in the West.

The anarchist inside me surgically attached to my circulatory system as an disembodied head inside my adomen because he crossed me is really looking forward to the fediverse ruining the security state's hold on the brainwashing infrastructure. At least I think, it's hard to understand his muffled voice.

STOP KONY

I don't know why people thought online organizing would be safe. The right does it, and then when they finally wild out we inevitably find out the FBI had a file on them. The reason the state didn't act before the stochastic terror is because they don't care or want to do anything about it. They'd never extend the courtesy of that indifference to the left.

I didn't speak English back then, and a few years ago I decided to look at posts from the Arab spring and damn liberals were treating our lives like a game

People should have realised before and after rohingya what harms these platforms can cause.

the only thing standing between the north korean people and their self-actualization leading to the overthrow of the regime and establishment of a wholesome liberal democratic country is a few servers running software written in a very specific part of California

"if we burn" really dissected that period, such an excellent read.

I do not remember the politics of 2010 i was a child

Oof, I remember doing a half-assed current events project on the Arab spring back in a highschool AP history class. I barely gave a shit about it or knew actually anything about it, but I remember everyone hyping it up.

The Arab Spring was in fact a revolutionary moment, and had an organized vanguard party existed anywhere it happened, it may have been significantly more successful.