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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48830980
But will they listen?
We cannot unmake the internet without damaging our polities. We can make the internet giants more responsible in terms of oversight, taxation, and compliance.
Of course the far-right used social media to forward it’s agenda. And of course they got the drop on the rest of us, much like Uncle Vlad did. However, such right-wing thinking has become normalised in society. I expect the detention centres will get a few more rolls of barbed wire and some nice new machine guns.
Not racist, just ethnopluralist.
It’s a new world, evidently; or maybe a retconned, rebooted, rebadged and rebranded one. It’s the same stuff beneath the packaging though.
But will they listen?
We cannot unmake the internet without damaging our polities. We can make the internet giants more responsible in terms of oversight, taxation, and compliance.
Of course the far-right used social media to forward it’s agenda. And of course they got the drop on the rest of us, much like Uncle Vlad did. However, such right-wing thinking has become normalised in society. I expect the detention centres will get a few more rolls of barbed wire and some nice new machine guns.
Not racist, just ethnopluralist.
It’s a new world, evidently; or maybe a retconned, rebooted, rebadged and rebranded one. It’s the same stuff beneath the packaging though.
