• Bruncvik@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Everyone who signed the petition should close their Twitter accounts. And write their newspapers that they would cancel their subscriptions if the articles quoted or embedded tweets. I didn’t sign any petition, and I’m already doing it. Well, sort of. I didn’t have any Twitter account ro close.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah, but they’re great at discharging the righteous indignation of people who might otherwise do something extreme like going on demonstrations or start campaigning for non-“moderate” political parties.

      This way people just put their personal data next to a meaningless and powerless piece of text on a website alongside that of other people, get the feeling of release after having done something about what pisses them of, and won’t do anything further about it.

      Petitions are the single greatest invention of the Internet Age to keep the masses dormant (Social Media would’ve been it if, it wasn’t that, as the far-right has shown, it can be used to turn some people into activists).

  • vane@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Why there are always petitions to ban something, not to create something, like eu based social network everyone can join and use for free ?

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      Found the market liberal.

      You ban stuff not because it is bad and you want something better. You ban stuff that is so bad that is actually harmful.