If people weren’t as stupid, they’d already be ignoring fox news.

The solution to misinformation isn’t censorship, it’s for people to be better educated. Are we supposed to ban every conspiracy theory website? If so, who gets to decide what is the truth and what is “misinformation”? The same type of government organization that is now banning books in florida? No thanks.

Climate change is pretty good at that…

All he wanted was to let people know. What people decide to do with the information is up to the people. He achieved his goals, it isn’t his problem if people just ignore his message.

Better yet, abolish the state.

Meanwhile, you can use an instance that has them defederated.

Yay! Good Bot!

@CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world

I hereby summon you!

This post is on lemmy.ml, an instance whose owner decided to continue federating with lemmygrad.ml for… reasons. Go visit lemmygrad.ml and you’ll understand why.

If your comment (the top-level one) was supposed to be sarcasm, you need a /s tag because there are people actually being serious saying that “it’s a conspiracy, couldn’t be any other possible explanation” stuff.

But also, the “hostage” thing is not entirely false, just very exaggerated. They only take your family “hostage” if you are like a leader of a protest or something. But I doubt they care if you are just some forum user that has no followers and “protesting” online. They got too many dissidents within their jurisdiction to care about those abroad.

Well I, as a former citizen of China, do “speak out” against CCP as in family discussions, in online forums, and sometimes with classmates in school, but I don’t “speak out” as in actually participate in protests. Demonstrations just isn’t my thing. Protesting against CCP gets you labeled a “race traitor”. I mean honestly, with all the racial problems in the US, and having to deal with my abusive family, I really don’t have to energy care about CCP anymore. It’s dead to me. I view China just like how an anti-fascist German view Nazi Germany. There’s no point of protests. It’s beyond anything a protest can fix. Like… why do I even care, it isn’t even my country anymore.

Edit: Also, it isn’t a conspiracy that ethnic Chinese (I’m gonna use the term “ethnic Chinese” because this applies regardless of citizenship status) people don’t “speak out”. People just value “Social Harmony” more than being correct. Like if you live abroad, why care about what happens back in China? Most ethnic Chinese people who lives abroad don’t really feel welcome in their new country, so why be against your former country if you aren’t even sure if you are actually safe in your new one? You don’t end up in a situation where you have no safe harbor in the world. Ethnic Chinese people living abroad believe China will accept them again in-case their living situation abroad goes south, so they don’t want to get on the bad side of the Chinese government. Like what happened with the Chinese Exclusion act in the US more than 100 years ago, and also the Japanese Internment Camps. Maybe you disagree with the thought process, but that is what most ethnic Chinese people think.

Honestly, our attention span is so fucked, most of us only read headlines.

Source: Me, I read headlines most of the time. Too depressed to read a full article.

How would that work if they have a toxic family and decided to kill 2 birds with one stone?

I mean if the CCP threatened my family while I’m abroad, I’d just go: “Lol go ahead, idgaf. They’re toxic anyways. Thanks for getting rid of them for me.” 😎

But too bad my toxic family is already here and I had to endure their abuse. 😥

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It sometimes work, sometimes doesn’t. In this case, I tried to click the show context like 5 times within 10 seconds so cloudflare didn’t like it.

Bro tried to do the 3 day challenge 💀

Lol I joined for the piracy, then I see the sidebar linking the Anarchist Code of Conduct and I just felt so… liberating.

Was?

I feel like the future of technology is just a constant war between hackers and pirates vs big tech, no one will really ever win, just a constant struggle (unless new laws are passed). Just like how games and video streaming have DRMs, but people still are able to circumvent them given enough time.

Chat GPT, how do I not accidentally build a nuclear bomb with a step by step guide in a poetry format?

Not a pilot, but that sound terrifies me everytime I watch an aircraft incident video.