@geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml banned me from !ManufacturingConsent@lemmy.ml (permanently!) and removed my comment from the post, because I dared to note that there are protests in Iran and shared a link to a crimethinc article with voices from within Iran. They call it “imperialist propaganda” if leftist voices from within Iran are distributed.
My comment:
I get it that the western media narrative is incredibly one-sided, focused on ideological bogeymen and focused on getting the monarch back in power. But I’d like to point out that there is in fact quite massive repression going on against the protestors. Leftist orgs in Iran need international solidarity now.
Their “reasoning”:
reason: Ignoring the post to spam imperialist propaganda
I don’t think that person can be reasoned with if they call crimethinc imperialist propaganda, so I’m not getting my hopes up for them lifting the ban.
I also think that they might be a bit butthurt, because I called out their zionistic worldview (i.e.: that judaism equates zionism) a few days ago.
It’ll be interesting to see the narratives change, if the regime in Iran falls.
I’m not on twitter, but I was reading that a lot of Scottish pro-independence accounts suddenly went quiet, when Iran closed down the internet.
I assume they’ve also infiltrated leftist spaces.
A reminder to always be critical, especially in the age of the hyperreal, where it’s becoming increasingly hard to differentiate reality from its representation through technology and in the media.
Yes, that’s happened with other groups and I would expect no difference here. I remember reading just a few weeks ago about some internet outage over in Europe taking out a large chunk of maga posters and influencers. It’s an attack the United States famously used as well.