Social media censorship. The wealthy and influential are terrified of social media. Prominent figures in America are advocating for social media sites to censor their content.
Content creators say that content is already censored in favor of those people. When you look at the ratio of likes to views on some creator accounts, you can tell that a third of the people who view a video like it, yet the video has no reach.
This means they are already censoring content that the powers don’t like. To them, any amount of content they deem unfavorable is too much.
No Filtered News
Young and many older people do not want filtered news through mainstream media. It cannot be trusted because of the one-sided narrative they report on. We want actual information. We want to hear from academics.
Some established interviewers show their bigotry through their interviews. Young people do not want that. To change the world, they want the media they consume to change.
Young people are more conscious of what’s happening in the world. They do not want mainstream media’s opinions on everything. They don’t like social media censorship like what’s being done now.
Young people want to hear from educated people. They don’t want to hear nonsense. They don’t want to hear racism, and they don’t want to hear propaganda any longer. Young people know racism and propaganda when they listen to it being fed to us.
Young people are against racism, settler colonialism, apartheid, and the subjugation of humans anywhere. They are against the suffering of people anywhere.
Western Media
We cannot have Western media define international opinion about what’s happening worldwide. This was something Frantz Fanon wrote about in The Wretched of the Earth.
He discussed that even the most liberal of reporters who were writing about what was happening in Algeria never ceased to use ambiguous terms about the native struggle against the brutal French occupation of Algeria. The reporters always replied, oh well, we’re just being objective.
But in the case of the natives, objectivity is always turned against them. The people who say, oh, we’re just being unbiased. They always seem to advocate for the state of the oppressor. They whitewash historical crimes against the oppressed people.
You will find the truth by reading about history—no need to be ambiguous. No need for social media censorship.
We should be terrified of Western media that has long shaped people’s opinions by pretending to be objective and unbiased. In reality, these systems have oppressed people in their own countries and the world over.