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[–] bear 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I said was that people in the west are subjected to orders of magnitude of western propaganda, and perhaps should worry about that first.

I'm capable of worrying about two things. Perhaps even three on a good day.

Chomsky even pointed out recently that censorship in the west now is even worse than it was in USSR.

Media being bad because capitalism pushes them to do evil to further their own ends is not the same thing as censorship enforced with state violence. These are both bad things, but uniquely bad in their own ways. I'm sad that Chomsky's age has caught up to him and he can no longer distinguish the two.