It’s been nice to see ordinary Americans open up to life in China but everyone is acting blind to their censorship. Makes me thankful for the fediverse and being able to self host my own instance.
It’s been nice to see ordinary Americans open up to life in China but everyone is acting blind to their censorship. Makes me thankful for the fediverse and being able to self host my own instance.
People are on edge. There’s basically a nazi president - or near as makes no difference. Now is not the time for hair splitters to shine, you know?
MentalEdge is right though, it’s a constant conversation that has to happen under a more even power dynamic - and deplatformimg actually does appear to work, given past examples.
Why is now not the time? If it’s now a lot of them comes out the woodwork it’s now you have a chance to change their mind or at least argue the other side so they hear opinions that doesn’t align 100% with their own.
A good example from some influencers recently is asmongold and hasanabi.
Asmon had some opinions about Israel/Palestine that were pretty aggressive. Instead of ignoring him Hassan had a multiple hour long conversation with him and at least to a degree, managed to change asmongolds stance.
Had he just said “nah I don’t talk to people with that opinion” , nothing would have changed…