For legal reasons, this is a joke lol
I think it’s time to consider the possibility that our grandmas and pop-pops are not tricked or indoctrinated, they just plain old support fascists.
Except for the bourgeoisie, most fascists are tricked or indoctrinated into supporting fascism though. Grandma doesn’t support fascism because she will benefit, but because she’s been told the most marginalized people in society are exploiting her and the fascists promise to stop that.
Aren’t we supposed to be past censorship?
The irony of this post lol
Do one better: Get control of their internet network access and start straight DNS black-holing whole swaths of misinformation on the internet. Tell them you don’t know what’s wrong and to complain to the service provider.
You can do this easily with a Pi-Hole under the guise of it being an “ad blocker,” and slowly, over time, making more sites unresponsive.
Make a Pi-Hole group for your own devices that doesn’t have this blocking, so when they question you, you can show them your device and be like “it works for me.”
It’s kind of the modern equivalent of using parental controls to block FOX News.
For legal reasons, this is also a joke, because “now that’s what I call gaslighting.”
Heh, I’ll do ya one better, I already replied with this to someone else in the thread, but I’m currently thinking about rerouting their Internet through my network via VPN and pinning my own HTTPS cert to their devices so I can alter Faux News “articles” on the fly with a ChatGPT integration maybe. Wouldn’t be able to alter videos, but might be able to slow them down to dialup speeds so they just get frustrated with it and just lean more on the written stuff
I figure this would be more effective than straight blocking
True, because they can still access it, but it’s garbled and/or confusing. Interesting idea.
so they just get frustrated with it and just lean more on the written stuff
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink it. In my experience, most average people just don’t like reading.
True, but I know them very well so my approach is tailored to them, they generally do read “articles” but will get distracted by those stupid auto-play videos and will start watching a couple of those. If they couldn’t for whatever reason I know they’ll just go back to whatever article they were reading
I’m not joking, you should do this. Free their I’ll minds from the poison.
Heh I may or may not have peeled off one “certain Trump vote” to a “Fuck it, not voting for anyone” so far
I’ve thought about rerouting their Internet through my network via VPN and pin my own HTTPS cert to their devices so I can alter Faux News “articles” on the fly with a ChatGPT integration maybe. Wouldn’t be able to alter videos, but might be able to slow them down to dialup speeds so they just get frustrated with it and just lean more on the written stuff
I wish there was an easy way to do this for radio, best I can think of getting some AM transmitters and overriding the stations. But that would be annoying and the AM ones are hard to find.
Seriously AM talk radio is fucken cancer and needs to be fucking nuked from orbit. Its where my grandmother gets her stupidest ideas from and then I have to explain that no I am not doing that stupidly complex thing so you can have a 5 percent better car antenna.
A more powerful local transmission may be considered jamming. I’m not sure, so look up relevant law beforehand.
