People are losing trust in mainstream media because of perceived biased coverage of the Gaza genocide. If that erosion of trust is real, why isn’t it prompting wider public re-examination of historical cover-ups and contested narratives — Watergate, Iran–Contra, Iraq, even shifting beliefs about who “beat” the Nazis? If we don’t question how past information was shaped, what’s the point of preserving evidence (e.g., Gaza genocide evidence recently removed from YouTube by Google)? Won’t this all be forgotten in a few years, the same way all those previous events are no longer discussed?

What’s stopping a sustained, constructive public inquiry into these parallels between past cover-ups and current information control? Where are good, constructive places to discuss these issues without falling into unproductive conspiracy spirals?

  • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Consider consistency and valuing consent. You would laugh at any western country exonerating themselves. But the narrative from a country that consistently heavily violates consent. Forcing compliance through bullying and threats. Regularly jailing and threatening journalists, while doing everything they can to opaquely control the narrative. That you accept? And no, the United States and the West aren’t immune to such criticism themselves.

    I believe victims, whether they are victims of the West, or victims of China, or Russia, or Ukraine, or Japan or England etc. I personally have met victims most ML deny existence of. I know of someone specifically trapped just outside of shenzhen. Who would have left the country if they could have. But their partner is uhyger and not allowed to leave or even travel. They were personally threatened by the government for even talking about it on an international platform. And that isn’t even going into the friends and family their government has disappeared.

    Do I believe that many in the West don’t really care about what happens to those in China. Just useing it hypocritically as an attack? Absolutely. Just as most ML typically feign to care about those in Palestine or other places. So long as they can be considered victims of the West. But that doesn’t mean that victims of the West or Eastern bloc don’t exist. Or that I believe the groups in power when they try to scrub and whitewash their history.

    But what do I know, right? I’m not a campist. Just an anarchist in their 50s.