My husband doesn’t belong to 50501 and he is skeptical of the news being censored, can anone help me show him otherwise.
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There’s always divorce
Step 1: Make a new account on Reddit or Twitter…
Use a VPN. On the American side try to find any signs of bad past news on Trump. Now do it from another country on the VPN. See the difference before your very eyes. You can also do this on TikTok and probably get similar results.
You’re going to have to be more specific. There is no network-level filtering of content at the network delivery layer in the US and US can access any international hosts if the host permits it.
Search engines do have regional awareness (that can basically always be changed as a setting) to deliver more local results. I suspect this on social media platforms is what you’re referring to. It’s not exactly censorship, but they definitely promote with an agenda.
Don’t get me wrong, Trump and Republicans are fascists who deserve the worst fate and would gladly setup this kind of system, but it’s not like there’s a network component to censorship like you see in China and some other dictatorships (yet).
Source: I’m always traveling and on VPNs from all regions of the Earth
So far most of the American censorship happens at Layer 7 (or Layer 8 - the meat layer), not Layer 3.
Use a VPN.
Do not recommend people to use random free VPN’s. You should pick your VPN provider carefully as all your traffic will flow through their servers.
Mullvad
I second this.
Proton is alright as well but mullvad seems to be stuck at #1.
What exactly do you mean by “news is censored”? Are you saying that certain stories aren’t getting the kinds of traction you think they should be getting? Or, are you saying that major events are not being covered at all because the government is threatening news organizations that cover them?
Yes, but he has to read a book. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Maybe teach him about passive voice, and then show examples of it in news media?
One of the easiest ways might be to have him take a look at an app like GroundNews, which displays biases of publications and shows blindspots in the media according to political lean. The biases and differences in headlines, presentation, language used, and what stories get reported at all by any given publication become very apparent.
The problem, though, is that depending on how deep his conspiratorial beliefs go, she might have to argue with a crazy person. It then doesn’t matter what facts and real actual research she shows, it will just be brushed aside as if it were mere dust.
Some people will hold their breath even when their body is telling them that they are about to suffocate, just because their brainwash outlet told them that oxygen is poisonous, what can you do?
Words to watch out for are things like “attacked”, “bashed” or “slammed” instead of “criticised”; “forced” instead of “chose”, eg “company forced to cut jobs”; “muzzled” or “gagged” instead of perhaps “censored”. The implied violence charges the story emotionally, it’s the most common form of news manipulation. They’re trying to make you feel - usually fear or anger - rather than think.
I’m so sick of seeing “slammed” in news.
Damn, OP BLASTED the news outlets!
My only complaint about Ground News (and most media bias meters in general) is that factual papers will almost always be listed as left-leaning. Because the Overton window has shifted so far to the right that cold hard facts presented exactly as they happened with zero spin now has a left-wing bias.
Maybe look for coverage of a topic or event from a few major US media sites/papers, and then at the same event from somewhere outside the US.
Etc.
Regardless of whether the news is censored, you might just find that your husband has a different political perspective to you. Some people find that a dealbreaker but personally I enjoy having different opinions to my partner. It means that our beliefs get challenged (in a good natured way) and that one or both of us get the opportunity to change our minds from an initial knee-jerk take on any given issue.
Perhaps a graphic depicting the extreme consolidation of news would help?
if its non-right wing news, yea its censored heavily.
E.S. Herman and Noam Chomsky’s book Manufacturing Consent is a great place to start. You can skip most of the book honestly, (it’s out of date), but the “5 Filters” part is like a decoder ring for American Legacy Media.
It’s free to read online
Amazing how many subjects Chomsky wrote about. I think his review of BF Skinner’s Behaviourism might be his best work because it is so devastatingly well argued.
Unfortunately, his UG work in the field of linguistics turned out to be really bad.
Universal Grammar states that all of the knowledge about languages is already in your brain when you’re born. The only thing that happens in language aquisition is figuring out which parameters are in what state: If your mothertongue is German, then the parameter “has case system” is switched to “yes” and the parameter “has tone system” is switched to “no”.
The idea is that there is some parameter that is set to yes in ALL languages. But everytime such a parameter is put forward, we find that it isnt the case actually.
The next problem is its eurocentrism. Languages, through the lens of UG, all have to have similar parameters as Indo-European languages. Whenever languages do not fit that model, the first instinct in UG is to press it into that model, which leads to stuff like invisible affixes, invisible words and even invisible subjects.
Instead of analyzing a language on its own, forming new categories to understand the mechanics of the language, UG tries its hardest to computerize and systematize languages.
There was an article out there about how protests this year have been consistently twice as many as in 2017. Show him that and then ask him if he’s seen it covered in the news.
I wonder if he’s open minded enough to accept information he wasn’t expecting, or one of those people for whom no proof will ever be good enough.
ask him if he’s heard about the latest CEO shooting, and point out how it ISN"T Brian Thompson’s cathartic death
Do you mean Chip Terhune, CEO of SAIF?
Shit I live near this incident and heard nothing about it.
Seems kind of different though. This is a state run non-profit for workers comp?
I haven’t even heard this one
case and point
On the off chance that you’re like me and would prefer to know, the phrase is typically “case in point”.
I should of looked at that before I wrote “should of”.
Same
Imma need a link for this please. Who?
