All that inauguration money can only buy so much protection.

That depends if you consider his executive order talk of starting a fire, or just starting a fire.

If the regulators are made up of selfish individuals who are captured by industry (lobbyists, campaign contributions, etc) then what? Please don’t say elect new officials, unless you have a solution to misinformation and the massive financing necessary to get elected.

It seems we’re stuck and we’re all just waiting for the selfish person to do the right thing. What if the selfish person is us? Perhaps the best way to navigate an unjust system is to participate as little as possible. And with that extra time we can organize and apply political pressure.

Has everyone forgotten that Trump mainstreamed the ban-TikTok rhetoric?

Funny because Trump brought it up before Biden was in office. “Man praised for putting out fire after starting said fire.” Lucky for him it seems TikTok users have memories as short as their media.

Edit: wording

Yes. I encrypt because theft. I know PopOS and Mint make it 1-click ez. …unless of course you want home and root on a separate drives. That scales difficulty real fast. There’s plenty of tutorials, and I managed, but I had to patch together different ones to get a basic setup-- Never mind understanding exactly what I did and repeating it (the latest challenge I’ve been dragging my feet on). I do hope this is an area that sees more development in the near future.

People, listen to Juvenile and “back that thang up!” That man understand the importance of data redundancy.

Sorry, their comment hadn’t been posted when i loaded the thread. Much obliged.

deleted by creator

deleted by creator

Understood. Thank you for the added context. I was not familiar with the “years of lead” phrase. I agree. It does not take a lot of effort to neutralize opposition. You reminded me of the Steve Bannon quote to “…flood the zone [the media] with shit.” Attention algorithms have only accelerated it. It has made it very difficult for Americans to focus on a core issue and organize around it. A new insane thing is pushed out before the previous one can be digested.

That makes sense to me. I’m a little fuzzy on “an ideological years of lead dynamic,” what do you mean by that?

I never said anything about state propaganda.

Sorry, I mentioned the State as a generalization of other comments, not yours. I agree with what you’re saying about PR and interest groups being the dominant form of US propaganda, and politicians not stopping the spread of misinformation because they’re benefactors. [edit: formatting]

Sorry you’re experiencing technical difficulties. Perhaps it’s the browser or client and a different one may yield better results. I also had a hard time getting into the twitter-like platforms. Even mastodon I now use more for notifications/updates. Lemmy has been the first fruitful online community I’ve used in years, so I hope it works out for you, too.

If you think that’s disgusting, I’ve yet to hear mention-- even on lemmy-- that many firefighters are prisoners earning $5.80-$10.24 per day. That’d be atrocious as an hourly wage.

Your comment makes the most sense to me. Surveillance seems like the bigger issue. Maybe I’m naive, but censorship and State propaganda seems to give the US government too much credit. US politicians can’t even protect their own constituents from systems that spread misinformation. The best they can do is exploit those systems to get elected. People can call that propaganda, but it gives me a coordinated central-power vibe and seems to miss a more obvious, individualistic, self-interested, capitalistic framing.

The ban is probably because politicians only want American companies exploiting American data for American profit. Not for increased tax revenue-- as they never pay their fair share-- but increased donations/lobbyist/campaign financing/perks, etc.

A US company can probably participate and benefit more easily than a Chinese company. Hence why they’re going after tiktok when they should’ve been going after meta, google, amazon, etc this whole time. That’s my 2 cents anyways. I’d be curious what the donations of each company looked like.

Playing different Antes, Decks and Challenges has kept it fresh and interesting for me: forcing me out of my comfort zone to find new combinations and strategies that works. It might help to change the game speed to 4x so it’s not so showy with the jokers and you can iterate different strategies faster. Or it’s not your thing. Nothing wrong with that.

Removed by mod

public feedback + engagement algorithms != public feedback

Also, plenty of news outlets have comments and voting. How do we know they’re real people and not bots? Same way we know with social media: we don’t. There’s something to be said for actual journalists and editors who have to build and maintain their reputation.

Facebook maybe, but I’m dumbfounded by how many people in my life are actively using Instagram.