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wanderoff

['Member']Joined: September 03, 2021 at 00:32Last active: September 17, 2021 at 18:152 discussions15 comments

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the only qualitative difference I find is the directness with which this operates when it comes to political communities. With sports or religion it f...
September 04, 2021 at 23:09
sorry, most of this was in reference to concepts in foucault's the History of sexuality. If you've ever read foucault, his view of power is much more ...
September 04, 2021 at 17:08
power is not involved ?
September 04, 2021 at 16:30
I'm suggesting that the thirst for subversion has been entirely absorbed within a system that cares very little about the content of the subversive be...
September 04, 2021 at 16:10
hence the second half of the quote, asking for what reason one might believe that their views are repressed or censored. I don't think you have to loo...
September 04, 2021 at 16:02
right, so then is there an exercise of control that generates compliance by virtue of something like the opposite of censorship, an incitement to spea...
September 04, 2021 at 12:58
But also an explosive multiplicity of different 'radicalized' political groups, who have developed beliefs and established communities online, yet ach...
September 03, 2021 at 17:21
yes, I think I wrongly posed the question. I have a hard time posing the question. It's something more like: is there an observable belief that politi...
September 03, 2021 at 16:48
I think they're being cool about it. It'd be crazy to suggest there are no issues of censorship on social media and in Politics in general in the US.
September 03, 2021 at 16:01
my point might be that this discourse on misinformation helps to radicalize political communities and to compel them to speak, which benefits power in...
September 03, 2021 at 15:50
"the medium is the message" or something like that
September 03, 2021 at 15:43
I wonder how our form of communication effects our political beliefs and horizons.
September 03, 2021 at 15:40
hey, thanks for the response. I wrote a rather long response to ssu that has some of my thoughts on the question of censorship. I can see what you mea...
September 03, 2021 at 15:39
I agree. I wrote a response to ssu that focuses on non repressive power, however I wonder how much real, repressive power works in tandem with non rep...
September 03, 2021 at 15:28
Hi ssu, Thanks for the response. I agree, one of the fundamental problems liberal democracy sought to solve was tyrannical, repressive power. The "ope...
September 03, 2021 at 15:25