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Why are there rarely counter-campaigns for all of these? Passivity of governments towards this is so weird. They occasionally mention banning social media and at the end just do nothing. Why not promote their views too.
The state and these governments serve the wealthy. Who manipulate the media against the people. Why would the states go against the people they serve. Whom to be clear when I say the people they serve I don't mean the people. I'm speaking about the wealthy.
Made me think of the quote I encountered this morning:
Yep, if resources were unlimited. Hording them would harm no one. But they aren't. For one person to have more, multiple people must have their liberties imposed upon by having less. The wealthy are by their very nature a violation of liberty. Not an expression of it.
But currently establishment parties are losing ground to others (often right wing) so you‘d think they‘d come up with something, not directly to serve the people but to protect themselves. But they can’t and it’s likely because they don’t stand for anything other than status quo. Can’t survive in information age when you don’t have any message.
There probably are information campaigns. But disinformation has a massive advantage because it doesn't need facts, you just need catchy slogans with no basis in reality. They spread much more easily.
Plenty of catchy slogans to be made based on reality. Problem with majority of establishment parties is lack of motivation, they stand for nothing.
This is true but also you could simply do an opposing disinformation campaign.
who's gonna 'out spend' facebook for exposure on facebook to counter 'programming' that facebook themselves is funding so they can sell more ads that target the morons that are buying into said programming?