A wake up call for Australians

Posted by Pointman on February 23, 2021 · 6 Comments 

The worst and most pervasive form of censorship is self-censorship, especially nowadays in America but it’s increasingly a worldwide trend. In innocent ways, it acts a a social lubricant. You’re talking with someone about something that’s happened in their lives and doing sympathetic noddies. They’re telling you about their travails and you’re thinking all their problems are self-inflicted or you know the real story behind whatever it is and are being fibbed to, and by this stage they half believe their own story about whatever is was that happened.

When it comes to politics though, it’s more subtle. Given the twin evils of a woke media’s vision of how everyone should think and it being rigidly enforced by big tech’s monopolies of nearly all social platforms, you have to self-censor to stay on their platforms. A person starts to think before they make a remark or add a comment online because they fear it might provoke woke outrage or offense.

It’s unconscious and after a while they get used living inside their own DIY censor chamber. In the end, they begin to think it’s probably something wrong with themselves and what feels like a huge crowd shouting the one correct opinion on anything through hundreds of megaphones at them is probably correct.

That’s the end user effect of large scale programming of people, otherwise known as propaganda and censorship with both positive and negative feedback built into it. Go with the flow despite your reservations or you might get excluded from something or other. Your social circle or God forbid, social media. You’re not aware of the process or that not only are you self-censoring but what you’re being presented with as truth is so often lies.

The combination of propaganda and censorship is frighteningly successful with a substantial part of any population. In the end, they base their opinions not on facts but factoids, which is internet speak for consensually believed facts which simply aren’t true. An armed mob of thousands of MAGA supporters descended on Washington, killing and rioting. Trump is hated by most Americans. Of course the puppet president isn’t senile. His son isn’t some degenerate criminal. Everybody simply knows these things.

Where the programming starts breaking down in an individual’s case is usually a single personal experience. An event. After that, some of the other factoids they firmly believed in start getting examined for the first time and once that happens, a process of personal de-programming has begun. It’s a small scale, personal version of the fabled Damascene moment after which nothing is ever quite the same again.

I wonder how many of Australia’s 16 million Facebook users had that moment last week? They tried to add a news link to a comment and suddenly were told right away that they weren’t allowed to do that. Shock. Horror. Gasp. I’m being censored by some megalomaniac midget in Silicon Valley. Censored. Not only that, but I can’t get any other news at all from Facebook. None.

They truly realised for the first time the arrogant and autocratic nature of the big tech oligarchs, because it was happening right there in front of their eyes on their computer screen or the mobile phone in their hand. And perhaps they also realised how much their dependency on social media had put them at the mercy of a foreign thug who’d no compunction at all about flicking the off switch on them anytime he wanted and without any notice.

What they do from that moment on remains to be seen. Sink back into addiction or strike out for pastures anew.

©Pointman

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