I know it's pretty tinfoil hat, but it seems like the tide of public opinion turning against Israel has given rise to an acceleration of plans to heavily regulate the internet in many western countries.
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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I imagine what got them worried was that they saw that they couldn't control the narrative anymore. If this was happening 20 years ago, we wouldn't even know there was a genocide happening in Gaza. The news wouldn't cover it, we'd be told that Palestinians are eating babies, and heroic Israel is defending our glorious western civilization against these savages who are attacking it completely unprovoked. But that doesn't work when Israeli atrocities are being live streamed to everyone's phones. All of a sudden people start asking questions, and that puts traditional media in a bind. If they keep ignoring it they become completely discredited, and if they start. covering it, then it confirms what people are seeing.
So now they're going after all the alternative channels to shut them down and make sure that you only get sanitized information that doesn't challenge the official narrative.
@obelix@obelix@lemmy.world this explains why they're making age verification a thing on both social media and operating systems as well as capturing "rogue" platforms the become sufficiently significant enough like tiktok.
if they can prevent the youth from obtaining information that contradicts the indoctrination they're getting from their environment; they can control the narrative and discourse in the future.
Regulating tech companies, not tech users right?
...right?
Dreams of ingsoc.
I don't trust anything this government does. They always find a way to pick the worst choice for everyone but themselves and their rich backers.
Even if they never abuse these powers (unlikely, given their track record), what's to stop the next government from abusing them?