Subj : Social Media Censorship and The DarkNet
To   : All
From : warmfuzzy
Date : Tue Sep 10 2024 22:53:08

The Case For The Darknet Over FB/Meta
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It has recently come to light that there has been censoring of posts to the 
Facebook (Meta) social network.  It has been left-leaning censorship, where 
people on the "right" have their voices and opinions silenced as a result of 
inappropriate censoring by people and digital algorithms alike.  The man in 
charge of Facebook/Meta has recently been in the news saying that he is sorry 
for what his company has done, and acknowledges the wrong-doing.

Luckily, there is an alternative to the standard social media places on the 
Internet via "flogs," or "free weblogs," or simply "free blogs" where a person 
can make their own website hosted off of The Onion Router (TOR), The Invisible 
Internet Project (I2P), and the network formerly known as The Freenet Project.

The Darknet has motivated people who were on the fringes of society to have a 
broadcast of their thoughts to the world.  Unfortunately, in these settings 
one must note the creepers who are into degenerate perversion, but if you 
search for authors promoting things that you also want to hear about, then the 
Darknet may be for you, if watched closely so that you don't go down a rabbit 
hole to the bottomless abyss (Hell).

It could be said that Facebook/Meta has too much censorship while the Darknet 
has too little censorship.  There are definite problems with both platforms, 
one is promoting the woke agenda, otherwise known as the  (FB/META) and the 
other one is promoting degeneracy (the top three main Darknet platforms).  The 
Darknet systems themselves are content-agnostic.  It is the users of those 
networks that make for the culture of those networks.  The problem is with the 
people who are perverts.  They creep and crawl into digital safe havens and 
spread their extreme perversion to the Darknet world.

For blogs my favorite Darknet is the Freenet Project (the current name of it I 
have forgotten), because there are indexed in search engines that allow you to 
filter out the nasties and get some intriguing political, religious, and 
sociological thought.  Granted I haven't used The Freenet Project in several 
years, but I have fond memories of the free speech that it empowered people 
with.

What has been your experience with social media?  Should it be censored 
significantly or have no censorship at all?  Perhaps the answer lays somewhere 
in some sort of middle ground.

Food for thought indeed.

Cheers!
-warmfuzzy

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