(10-30-2018, 01:01 AM)Teejay Wrote:(10-29-2018, 06:34 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: So what will be purged? Lets start with the culture. I expect the worst X elements in culture such as the cynicism and destructiveness in pop music to be gone -- and to not return until the next Reactive generation comes onto the scene. I expect communications to be more sanitized, with seditious material being treated much like Communist propaganda was in the last 1T.
That is already starting to happening on social media, for example; the recent deplatforming on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Also it has spread to other social media platforms such as Gab (which has temporarily shutdown) after that Pittsburgh shooter had an account on it.
The social media have always had rules. Most social media have advertising as an objective, and spammers deny suppliers of media the ability to charge people for posting the classified ad. A news site obviously does not want one to offer to sell your used car except by advertising it. Forums also can shut down access to someone who uses those forums for lewd, salacious, or offensive material. If someone were to post antisemitic drivel on this site, you could count on someone like me (and I doubt that I would be alone) calling it to the attention of the threadmaster.
Cesar Sayoc was like many Trump supporters -- loud, but not obviously violent. Only after he was caught in the act was his account removed. People can go over the top with little warning to anyone. I know people who fully accept the Trump agenda, but I don't see them likely to make or mail pipe bombs.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.