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does anyone else feel enslaved? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Foresight@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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When I was growing up the internet was a place to be liberated from the world say what you want to say, be whoever you want and form genuine communities with shared interests. Now the internet feels like a tool to enslave the mind with identity echo chambers and any deviation leads you to being banned and blocked shunned and silenced within a void that is inescapable. Novel unique websites coded manually by hobbyists running servers for free in the commons allowing people access to the free flow of information under the banner of "information should be free" has largely gone away with corpratisation. I miss the days when the internet was populated largely by nerds aiming to make a better world not this controlled censored hell hole of profiteering.

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[–] Neato@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago (35 children)

I agree with your premise, but no, I don't feel like the internet is just " echo chambers and any deviation leads you to being banned and blocked shunned and silenced". And anytime I see someone complain about being systematically censored or banned, you've gotta look at what they're posting.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/1697612

Banned because I made a meme that reddit was once a platform for free speech now a social engineering tool, found any excuse on my profile to give me a label of hate speech, and also because I disagreed with abortion.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/1692669

What is it with you lot with your obsession and fixation on rights? Why do you want the government to dictate your thoughts and actions so much?

https://lemmy.ml/comment/1693235

Enforcing policy is dictating lives though, how about just use a different name for marriage and do a different ritual? Unless that’s only if you actually only care for inheritance laws.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/1696649

How about people just treat each better than forcing it on people by the state.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/1693539

Marxism-leninism isn’t fascist though

https://lemmy.ml/comment/1677203

Like when your get older you appreciate the professionalism and authoritarian rules. No being more conservative doesn’t mean you hate gays and want death upon them, you libs sure do like to assume and generalise.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/1676143

Well the western left does have issues like being sex obsessed.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/1696276

So bad because he wrong thinked? Tate bad because he said a word? Please if he helps young men go to the gym and improve mental health then what’s the problem but it also highlights a gaping hole in society that hasn’t been addressed and neglected by this Western woke ideology, largely the needs of males have been neglected, shunned and ignored.

Just a quick 5 minutes of scrolling. So maybe people dislike what you're saying because what you're saying is anti-LGBT, anti-rights, pro-forced birth, conservative, tankie apologia? Also a fan of Andrew Tate so pro-rape, pro-human trafficking. I mean your record is speaking for itself.

[–] Gabbro@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

It's always the people you most expect.

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