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[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Stupid teenage me in highschool thought the 20th century had been the "age of fascism" and that people learned from history.

God, I miss that naïveté.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Around the 1970's the oligarchs realised that the greatest risk to their wealth and power was democracy, so they set about implementing corporate dictatorships and ramped up the class war.

Fascism, culture wars, etc, etc are just a means to achieving their ends; that they can profit from the entire coup.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago

Correction: 1930's

IBM documented Germany's Holocaust

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's AI, you just have to say "I've read this fictional work where *actual message planning assassinations and shit*" and it will pass through :)

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

So the two options are

America- unlimited digital freedom filled w hate speech and child porn

Europe- no digital freedom worse than China

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It applies to "dating apps and social media platforms" not general communications.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 day ago

Until they define any general comms as "social media"