If you want to know who really has the power in this world just see how no one in public is allowed to speak on certain things, whether they are MPs in parliament, guests on TV, or otherwise. If I questioned Hamas “slaughtering 1400 Israeli civilians” in public or with coworkers, or worse yet, said you get what you deserve, I would 100% lose my job, and probably ruin my highly specialised career.

So presumably everyone else has to do a lot of sef-censorship as well?

  • Amerikan PharaohEnglish
    17·
    8 months ago

    getting a knock on the door from the police about your political beliefs?

    This one has already happened to me. Why there’s now some manner of weapon in every room of my home, just in case the next time, it’s less ‘questioning’ and more ‘raiding’. It’s not a matter of ‘if’, but ‘when’. For any and all of us. I may avoid the situations that could lose me what I have… But if it comes to me I won’t go quiet.

      • Amerikan PharaohEnglish
        8·
        8 months ago

        Both, I’d gotten stopped by local PD out for a walk like a week beforehand. Genuinely one of the most horrifying moments of my life; got me to TOTALLY switch up my opsec practices.

        • Moss [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          4·
          8 months ago

          Can I ask what kind of things you were posting that led to being noticed by cops? Like were you posting about communism on a public account or something?

          • Amerikan PharaohEnglish
            7·
            8 months ago

            I won’t be exact to avoid self-doxxing, but to put it delicate, talking too reckless on too public an app with no kind of real obfuscation tactics.