Activists on the far #left also are prone to #censor, and on #Mastodon it is easy - just claim the person you don't want to speak out is a fascist, nazi, racist or some-such and threaten the admins of defederation. These activists know that
most admins don't have time to think these things through, so they'd rather delete the posts.
I explained this process in an email to the #w3c TAG
That e-mail is missing this revelatory exchange where such an activist says that I am promoting fascist conspiracy theories because I was defending what two presidential candidates were saying namely #RFKJr and #Vivek Ramaswamy
In the first post, I refer to an interview of Presidential Candidate #VivekRamaswamy
who argues that the idea from the 1990s that the US could transform China through trade was flipped on its head and instead, China has infiltrated America and taught us about the
beauties of censorship and thought control with apps such as TikTok (and clearly even affected W3C policy)
Of course, the idea that America uses trade as a tool of empire is well known. There is a French cartoon on the subject from the 1980s called “Obelix and co” translated into numerous languages, including latin. I mentioned
that in the pictured Toot and in the equivalent post on Twitter here:
The second is a video clip of an interview of the Presidential Candidate @RobertF by the famous Lex Friedman, where he explains the conflict in Ukraine starting with:
"Vladimir Putin could have avoided the war in Ukraine. His invasion was illegal. It was unnecessary. And it was brutal.
But I think it is important for us to move beyond these comic book depictions of this insane avaricious Russian leader that wants to restore the Soviet empire, and who made an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine…”
He then proceeds to give a 40-year history of the conflict. That is not as much as Prof Timothy D. Snyder, who gave a course published online, which I watched on the history of Ukraine since 800 CE. But that lasted 4 months.
The short clip I pointed to was this:
And the point of that linking was just to show that RFKJr was not defending Putin but thought one should have a more complex view of the war if one wanted to know how it could be stopped.
So there you go: by shouting fascism, left-wing extremists get presidential candidates cancelled. I have not hung out in right-wing circles that much, so I can't report on what is going on there.
Mastodon Architecture favors Calomnies from Henry Story on 2023-07-26 (www-tag@w3.org from July 2023)
In the first post, I refer to an interview of Presidential Candidate #VivekRamaswamy
who argues that the idea from the 1990s that the US could transform China through trade was flipped on its head and instead, China has infiltrated America and taught us about the
beauties of censorship and thought control with apps such as TikTok (and clearly even affected W3C policy)
Of course, the idea that America uses trade as a tool of empire is well known. There is a French cartoon on the subject from the 1980s called “Obelix and co” translated into numerous languages, including latin. I mentioned
that in the pictured Toot and in the equivalent post on Twitter here:
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Clearly, the US strategists had read their classics.
In the story "Obelix and co" the Romans try to assimilate the Gauls by buying their Menhirs an...
