In France : https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/PPA
They're lobbying for laws, supporting political parties, and even influencing orthodox economic theories and their spread.
They're also buying publishing houses, survey institutes, and even journalist schools.
That's how you can find people who claim to be neither from the left or the right, but are only knowing/regurgitating opinions broadcasted in the capitalist-owned state(, e.g., solve the deficit by lowering the number of public servants and selling public companies, instead of taxing the billionaires and fighting tax fraud&schemes, after all they're the ones creating jobs and working enough hours to deserve millions, and they'll leave the country if we tax them, not seeing the problem with this race to the bottom).
Just a reminder of our hypocrisy when we're criticizing the state's Pravda while our laws allow the Pravda of the millionaires.
Worker's owned medias and companies would be the obvious third way to private//public ones, or at least the three types in a relative equal mesure, but not >90% of capitalist-owned medias. We could/should also finally accomplish the pluralism that we're so proud of and makes us a "democracy" better than the dictatorships allegedly specialized in brainwashing their citizens(, otherwise how could the authentic popular support be explained, they still need to be sanctioned/invaded/liberated). Concretely, we could give ~100€ every year to our citizens, and let them choose/vote to which newspaper such sum should be allocated, among other ideas. Perhaps that communist newspapers/radios/ideas would finally appear instead of the pseudo-objectivity owned by the wealthiest, who even knows what socialism or capitalism means, and why 'passive incomes'/'lucrative properties' are a theft of the workers, for example ? Or any argument from our enemies, whose narrative is systematically silenced.
Some claim that our freedom of speech on the internet will make such ideas re-emerge, but they've already successfully censored any terrorist point of view, and are still not satisfied, making more than clear that their objective is to control what is said on the internet(, "FReEdOm of SpEecH BuT nOT freEDOm oF ConSeQUEnceS"), this year they're focused on the end of online anonymity, last year it was disinformation and the year before it was hate speech.
Anyway, what was interesting/new here was the mention of social medias, but having a majority of 'workers/readers'-owned mainstream medias is just one more thing that will never happen. Most socialist and republican newspapers belonged to their journalists in the XIXth century.
Just don't doubt that our system is the best, and that we should destroy any country aiming for a different one.
Please downvote this comment but don't ban me : it certainly feels to me that 𝕏 is much more resistant to the numerous demands of censorship that the states asked of Twitter, especially in its last years(, pre- and post-covid). It's not something i've heard but that i've witnessed, and it feels unique enough to be mentioned : prior to that states simply had to ask, and now they have to enact laws.
Apart from this welcomed exception, every single social media increased its censorship, and most people accuse these social medias instead of realizing that the demand came from our states.
Writing that doesn't make me a pro-capitalist, it's just that the world isn't in black and white, and it doesn't mean that E.Musk won’t censor anti-capitalist accounts one day(, if they're not already deboosted, which i haven't yet seen a clear proof of).
And if you claim that E.Musk is saying stupid shit everyday don't waste your energy i already agree with you(, e.g. the fact that he considers FAFO hilarious without realizing the double standard, i'd like to write FAFO for Sept.11th but it only works one way, if i'm sticking to Oct.7th then Hamas clearly acted as a consequence of Israel's actions, and it's just an example), my point is that his ownership of twitter is worth mentioning since it changed things, 'from my point of view'/'if i'm not mistaken'.
In his defense he's not anti-China, repeatedly retweeted people like Glenn Greenwald, or that kind of anti-imperialist stuff, but yeah, ok, i also kinda know his other declarations aligned with D.Trump.
Back to the subject, i'd obviously prefer if 𝕏 or Reddit were like Lemmy, and if users had a control over the algorithm, but ultimately the real problem here are the laws of our capitalist-owned states, and also that we'll still have decades before the population switches more fully from newspapers and t.v. to internet.
The downvote button should be around here
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Imma downvote. For missing the downvote button.