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This is tragically wrong, and wildly so. I'm not (that) old and in middle school buddies used to send me goatse, lemonparty, 2girls1cup, god only knows what else over the public school wifi without any thought of oversight or repercussion. I can't even come up with a joke for how much things have changed - it's so out of control and sad - clinical, sterile, and politically corrected.
Where are those promoted these days? Genuinely asking, because I'd like to be there
It wasn't magic, or a mystery. They openly refused to hire, fired, de-platformed, or otherwise silenced anyone who disagreed. Not just on 'this one subject' - but certainly on this one successfully. Vaccines also come to mind. Or masks. These people forced toddlers to wear masks, day after day, for a long time.
Anywhere but here it would seem extremely odd you were still shrugging like 'it's a moot point' and asserting they didn't 'suddenly gain mythical powers.' People have fought total wars for generations over whether or not the cracker was actually Christ. 'Men can be women, actually, even at 3'?
C'mon.
Middle schoolers still share weird shit with each other in private discord servers/dms. I'm not sure if the prevalence of that over the whole population has increased or decreased, but it's still there.
I had thought it was obvious that wasn't my point - my point was that once upon a time 'the youngest generation' genuinely did have more access to information than any before and that is not this 'youngest generation'. You used to be able to search for almost literally anything on youtube and watch full on independent documentaries about it. Now all the results are BBC or CNN or whatever.
It was the example you gave. I'm still not sure this is true though? I think it's directionally true - see how many subreddits are banned - but it's not that true. Even pre-elon, there were a lot of nazis on twitter. There were and are a lot of nazis on tiktok. Communists, too. Lots of weird fetish stuff too. Youtube is still mostly native creators, BBC and CNN are a very small fraction of the views.
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