Orewllian Youtube ads ??

originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: SeaWorthy

That's a lot more subtle, but if you pay attention, nearly every family you see is either incomplete (missing one of the two parents in the depiction; doesn't mean he or she isn't "there"), nontraditional, or has one or more members as minority these days.

We have noticed this and talked about it. We also have had the experience you mention above. Think of something you should fix or buy and it pops up on adds.

originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Whodathunkdatcheese

Freedom is slavery.

"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." George Orwell, Why I Write

originally posted by: PorteurDeMort
Work, consume, obey. Never think for yourself. Your government knows best. Take the experimental vaccine or lose your rights. Does this sound like a free country to you?

Welcome to 1984

Wrong book.

It's not a long book. It's not a difficult book. Read the damn thing.

originally posted by: Serdgiam


Frequently with a bit of a mix! With the actual term "Orwellian," we are now seeing it claimed by the Ministry of Truth that the real Orwellian stuff is coming from the people who are calling it out.

The only way this can succeed is with constant neurological saturation and inculcated trust in inherently non-trustworthy info channels (like the news, commercials, etc).

Id even go so far as to argue that commercials on a publisher like YouTube are critical to this process. Even if it isnt all intentional manipulation, this has been going on for quite some time. We can examine everything from youtube ads to "gamergate" to see it.

As long as they can get pertinent keywords into those first five seconds before ads are skippable, itll work about the same in shaping cultural & social focus.

See my last post.

"ignorance is strength"

a reply to: Whodathunkdatcheese

The problem is that one person's democratic socialism is another's totalitarianism.

If you vote me into a single payer socialized medicine scheme that I cannot legally escape, *you* might call it democratic socialism because *you* wanted it, but I would call it totalitarian because it would be forcibly removing my agency of choice to stay apart from the system and remain with what I had or seek other solutions.