• Michael@slrpnk.net
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    7 hours ago

    What information we do have is regularly downplayed and whitewashed by media, if it’s addressed at all. Dissent and critical voices are muted. We are distracted regularly in every direction.

    We can leverage our collective power by striking and taking to the streets before the collapse hits the fan.

    We need a new system, human rights for all, and direct democracy.

    News should not be able to openly air propaganda without providing factual evidence and counter-arguments. There needs to be oversight for news organizations that repeatedly distort the truth, manipulate the evidence, or suppress viewpoints that differ from their own. If they cannot comply with the tenets of fair and balanced reporting, they can’t air their propaganda anymore and call it news.

    We need to take Lemmy’s and the larger fediverse’s concept and example and make decentralized media a reality for the masses. I wish I were able to spearhead this myself, but I would gladly support this effort in any way I could if an idea or plan is manifested.