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Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website
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this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2025
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you're acting like the problem here is the nature of not just the internet, but any hypothetical internet, but you give the game away right in your comment:
big monopolized platforms controlled by megacorps that use algorithmic curation to decide what the products/hogs/rubes see. use a new computer-it can be a VM; I won't tell. use it from a new connection-VPN is fine. create a fresh youtube account. search for a video of a random thing you don't think is super politically polarized. space exploration, typography, taylor swift.
now click on the first recommendation. keep doing that. count how long it takes to start showing you literal nazi shit. if you need a bright line for that, maybe keep an eye out for the phrases "BLOOD AND SOIL" or "FUTURE FOR WHITE CHILDREN".
see, the problem here is, it did actually work how you thought. briefly. it wasn't clean or perfect. we got to see a lot of distended assholes in the process. some people ended up going down some crazy fucked up rabbit holes. pro-ana groups did not start on facebook. but this shit was, provably, not structural.
but, generally, the internet was moving things left. that had to be stopped. had to be butchered and dominated by a corporation. it was just a little less obvious what was happening at the time than when they did it for united fruit, with a smaller immediate body count.