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Folks are just now noticing and that's why it's gotten a bad as it has.
People have been noticing for a long time, but almost everyone's attitude has been "I'm really busy and this is someone else's responsibility."
Even this article... the press is sounding an alarm, but to whom, exactly?
The time to stop this was a decade ago, but now the cancer has wound itself into every corner of our societies to the point where it can't be easily excised. There is no authority to appeal to to say "Hey! This is fascist!" because acting now means acting against half your voters.
This is not even closing the barn door after the cows have left - this is closing the barn door while the barn burns down.
When I was a kid, everybody brushed it off as satire, if they acknowledged it at all.
YouTube began to promote "subtle" and not so subtle far right influencers under the tenor of Susan Wojcicki.
It was under her leadership that the Adpocalypse occurred and she immediately surrendered to the bourgeoisie sponsors to slam a colossal hammer down on the monetization of virtually all independent creators, which vastly affected poor lefty creators far more than the rich fascist ones (which was intentional)
Not to mention the CONSTANT bending over backwards to protect fascists like the Paul Brothers, Alex Jones, Steven Crowder, etc, through CONSTANT AND UNCEASING ToS VIOLATIONS
Only banning or demonitizing any of them when public backlash reached critical levels. I don't believe she ever allowed the Paul Brothers to be demonitized or punished in any way whatsoever. Even the Suicide Forrest video was #1 trending for an entire day before someone at YT finally took it down.
She truly was the cancer that infected the mainstream internet with the far-right. May she rot in hell.