And the US passed a bill in 2024 dedicating US$1.6 billion (£1.3 billion) to “countering Chinese propaganda” over the next five years.
The US is just a smol bean protecting its fragile liberal democracy from the bad, mean, no good authoritarian state from making our impressionable youth into Manchurian candidates.
It’s always double-speak with these people. Obviously this is for propagandizing us against China.
Say you were china, or the EU, or any other country/bloc and basically your entire youth was addicted to Twitter, Facebook or whatever, and officially manipulatable by the US government…. And you got into a real conflict. Maybe even a hot war.
Wouldn’t you be worried about the US propagandizing your population?
I would.
The US government’s solution is completely dysfunctional and not getting at the root of the issue because they are afraid of reducing the power projection of big tech, among other things. But the core issue doesn’t need to be trivialized.
The US is just a smol bean protecting its fragile liberal democracy from the bad, mean, no good authoritarian state from making our impressionable youth into Manchurian candidates.
It’s always double-speak with these people. Obviously this is for propagandizing us against China.
I mean, there’s a real issue.
Say you were china, or the EU, or any other country/bloc and basically your entire youth was addicted to Twitter, Facebook or whatever, and officially manipulatable by the US government…. And you got into a real conflict. Maybe even a hot war.
Wouldn’t you be worried about the US propagandizing your population?
I would.
The US government’s solution is completely dysfunctional and not getting at the root of the issue because they are afraid of reducing the power projection of big tech, among other things. But the core issue doesn’t need to be trivialized.
Those hypotheticals are all well and good.
But you have to understand the scale of things and the history of things. Just as the US military-industrial complex dwarfs those of all other states, so does the US propaganda-intelligence complex. The Russiagate narrative itself was a psyop to manufacture our consent to censorship.
If you think social networks are meant to socialize and not getting in a real conflict, you end up with a kind of twist