silentjohn
This is absolutely right. I work in the biz (not google) and we don't decide what things are named. We just ingest sources. Very rarely do we make manual edits such as this. It's not like we have a department sitting around deciding what all the bajillion things in a map are named. If the US decides that something is named something, that's what we ingest.
This is the exact nonsense that gets people all worked up and fighting and wasting their energy, while we have oligarchs planning our demise.
Ole Two-Tap Obama. Nah, I'm good.
Any good Marxist pixelfed instances?
Banned at my work. I told my boss and he's like "good that the company protects us from that". 😞
Damn near every thread just feels like bots posting based on sentiment. One day, ever user loves idea XYZ but the very same topic on the next day every user hates idea XYZ. None of it feels organic or genuine. Once I learned about dead internet theory and read Manufacturing Consent, it's easy to see how the vast majority of social media is just nonsense bs
I pulled that figure out of my ass, but it's definitely high, likely way higher than people realize.
I'm all for banning oligarchic media (news, social, etc). The dude sig heiled and literally controlled the social media narrative to further his political agenda, and people are like "buT MY fReE sPeACH!". Also, I can't even read those posts since they require you to log in.
The Jakarta Method
Manufacturing Consent (and/or the follow up Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent)