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Cindy Cohn touched on the toxicity of the social media space in a wide-ranging interview with "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart Monday night.
  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    83·
    14 hours ago

    There’s no propaganda. Its very simple logic and reason. I’ve done it. There’s no reason you can’t too.

    It doesn’t shift responsibility anywhere. For some reason society gets this ridiculous notion that there can be only 1 person or entity to blame for anything, when in reality that’s almost never the case. Platforms have the choice not to exploit their users, and the users have the choice to leave. Both are responsible for the way things are, and either party has the power to end it.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      59·
      14 hours ago

      There’s no propaganda.

      Of course there is no war in bah sing seh! How could I forget.

      Individual choices are practically immaterial and have almost no impact on the outcomes societies endure. For all practical purposes, individual choice is meaningless. You doing or not doing something doesn’t mean shit, because you aren’t in a position of power over systems.

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
        91·
        14 hours ago

        Yes…you are. Claiming you’re not is exactly the kind of attitude that perpetuates these monoliths and they thank you kindly for your service.

        • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
          29·
          14 hours ago

          Ah yes. The pee-wee herman defense. How astute.

          As long as you put the responsibility for outcomes on individuals and not systems and those with power over systems, you are doing their work for them.

          • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
            91·
            14 hours ago

            I already told you that’s not what I’m doing. You need to read more carefully. I put the responsibility on the people responsible. All of them.

            • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
              15·
              13 hours ago

              I already told you that’s not what I’m doing.

              They said, as they repeatedly did the thing they were being accused of…

              • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
                51·
                13 hours ago

                Except they didn’t, and everyone can see that they didn’t so I don’t know who you’re trying to gaslight here.

                • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  26·
                  13 hours ago

                  Sure. You’re entirely immune to propaganda campaigns that existed even before your grandparents were born.

                  EVERYONE is victim to propaganda but you. You alone are able to identify the issue, that those in the positions of least power are the ones we should be asking to change global systems, an approach that has quite literally never worked to affect change.