Yep.
Yes.
And yes.
And since the last country I lived in had no borders, the "barriers to entry" in creating my new country are already very low.
Despotism (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w
“A community is low on a ‘Respect’ scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.”
“...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...”
“A community rates low on the ‘Information’ scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.”
“See how a community trains its teachers”
“...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.”
“And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...”
Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo
“The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...”
Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff
Paraphrase From 1910 Websters Collegate Dictonary
Fascism: Government control of business and industry, government control of media and the press, government control of education, and forcible suppression of dissent.”
In the 1930 (if I remember correctly) pretty much the same but they add the line “especially by the right.”
They’re private companies...receiving the tax and legal breaks of a public utility. That was the whole point of the Sec. 230 issue.
bttt
I kept my old shortwave radio and I hope conservative voices will be broadcast from beyond the Big Tech curtain.
OFFICIAL NOTICE:
Your Fascism meme has been stolen.*
*And since you didn’t do anything about it before it was stolen, laches apply and you cannot do anything about it. :>)