More writing than surfing was done today...
Censorship
Why can't we just go along with it, write things the sponsor/censors don't hate, and take the ever shrinking wages the censored media dole out to us? Because, even if your life and your heirs' lives seem to be in no immediate danger from glyphosate, earning a living from writing things the sponsor/censors approve is not a right livelihood. This quote seems apropos, and Black Americans, especially, need to realize that I'm not taking it as far out of its original context as the sponsor/censors want them to believe. If the forces of tyranny achieve the revolution, or "Great Reset," of their dreams, it won't make much difference to the prospects of any given ghetto youth that the ghetto can be racially integrated. Do we want all to be slaves together, or do we want all to be free together?
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To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right. It is a way of allowing his conscience to fall asleep. At this moment the oppressed fails to be his brother's keeper. So acquiescence-while often the easier way-is not the moral way. It is the way of the coward.
—Martin Luther King Jr, "Three Ways of Meeting Oppression" in Stride Towards Freedom (1958)
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Quoted at https://howtomeowinyiddish.blogspot.com/2023/05/oh-brother.html . People bring all kinds of good things to that site. I'm going to set a rule and limit myself to one link per day.
Psychology
Advocates of censorship need to keep this in mind. The censorship on Twitter definitely makes me feel hated. Unwelcome. Unloved. And what effect does that have? Does anyone seriously think it makes me think "Oh, I want to comply so that Twitter will love me"? Hah. I think, "What a hateful corporation Twitter has grown into!" I feel motivated NOT to do anything that would boost Twitter, like visiting the home page and inadvertently opening an advertisement and encouraging one of those loathsome sponsors. So I don't see tweets from e-friends. Well, that's the way Twitter has decided to be, everybody screaming "Read or buy or watch or listen to MY stuff, ME first, ME ME ME," nobody respectfully listening to other people or sharing their interests or becoming friends. I don't feel friendly when I'm on Twitter, these days. I feel positively hostile. Because I'm under attack. I miss going to Twitter to encourage other people and cheer people up--remember #ChooseCuteness? But when people are told they're "low quality" (meaning, in this case, "one of those low-quality people who don't provide phone numbers for corporate representatives to call them while they passive sit back and absorb corporate garbage"), they're being told not to be friendly; nobody wants "low quality" friends. So, go ahead and be hostile, right Twitter? Real people, back when real people mingled and had fun with Twitter, always used to complain about the hostile trolls. New Twitter's policy breeds hostility, so it's likely to bring out more trolls.
I have no idea what it would take to fix this. Me? I don't know--people who miss the cheerful, cute, funny tweets and the support for THEIR tweets can always try plying me with hundred-dollar bills, printed books, and dozens of tweets like "Attention @TwitterSupport! We miss our dear friend and encourager, the kind, patient, cheerful @5PriscillaKing. Please go out of your way to ENCOURAGE this fine lady to return to Twitter and encourage us again." Like weekly, for as many months as it takes the message to get through those thick corporate heads.
Or we could just find an alternative to Twitter. Somehow I don't think Gettr is going to be it. I know for sure that TruthSocial won't be. An alternative to Twitter worth mentioning should be 100% free to users, 100% private (don't even mention phone numbers, and leave it to the police to trace physical addresses if criminals use the system, which is desirable because it helps the police stop crimes being committed; you want people who intend to beat up smaller kids, rob banks, etc., to use the site to share whatever idiotic plans they have). Bigger photos are fine for those who want them, as long as there's also an option of showing no photos until someone clicks on them. And the terms of service should spell out very clearly that the solution to false information is accurate information, that users of the site control what they see by choosing whom they follow or block, and that if they don't like what they see they can always use CTRL+W to close the tab.
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