I woke up this morning with Trumps antics and his 600 brownshirt violent thugs released irresponsibly amongst 1500 dupes in my head and came here for some distraction. Here,
Jbee
I have no idea what this is about. Are you sure we live in the same country where our President got a significant majority of popular votes, and is doing all the things he promised to voters?
We do seem to have sexual content on this forum. I don't know how much censorship we have here. I'm able to scroll past pornography and other sexual content without suffering any ill effects. But, sometimes sexual content can dominate a site which would be unfortunate here. That thought reminds me of a Facebook page I used to follow. It became taken over by one or two users who posted so many "nature" pictures of flowers, bridges, trees, mountains, rivers, etc. etc. that it pushed out all the other content. Sure some people enjoy pictures of flowers and rivers, but many readers were there for other content. Some people my enjoy video of male masturbation too, but many of the other readers are here for something else.
Bob, friend, we do live in two different Americas. There are roughly half that see a significantly small margin, very close to a 50/50 "voter" split, which means that there are very nearly just as many "voters that are not upset that Trump is attempting to do what he said he would, which may actually be refreshing, but what he is doing TO voters. I also think that it is important not to exclude those millions who didn't vote. So, as you can surmise, I might feel upset by some of the radical shenanigans. You'd probably be surprised by some of what I'm not upset by, but I am outraged, embarrassed and threatened by several actions and I know that it is just beginning.
Our concern here is guessing what the government will do to our free speech and spreading the messages toward body freedom. There is a lot of educated guessing going on. There is an unprecedented tight contact with media owners, a huge influence of oligarch and corporate money and their desire for profit. There is the archaic moral authoritarian influence found in his cabinet, authors of Project 2025, which are enemies of our body freedoms. There is that Trump, as a former slut man about town, probably doesn't honestly believe in body censorship, but knows that he has to pander to that base realistically, unless his position as a lame duck frees him from them.
He is in love with a distorted image of the Gilded Age and we know it's Victorian body oppression. We don't know how this all will affect body freedom and free speech. His cronies in media are at his ear and there is that influence as you mentioned, but with the other hand, he is suing other media unfavorable to him, with frivolous cases to break their banks and attempting to arrange DOJ and FBI to go after and intimidate descent. We just can't be sure.
The algorithms are definitely channeling the media that we make judgment with and vote with and make opinions into a divided world. Two different worlds, divide an conquer. Polarizing information is creating two Americas.
But, is censorship of simple nudity profitable, or unprofitable? I think that may be the greatest influence in our concerns here, the bottom line.
Jbee
