Brian Holmes via nettime-l on Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:00:09 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> silence on Palestine?


On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 2:38 AM Christian Swertz via nettime-l <
nettime-l@lists.nettime.org> wrote:

> Would you agree that commercial media outlets and considerably
> commercial social media are means to prohibit solidarity (in this case,
> for example, with peaceful minded people on both sides) and can thus be
> understood as means of capitalists in the class struggle?
>

Well, yes, but the media did not event racism or the drive to control other
people.

If you think back, the web was embraced as a way to get out of the previous
mass-media trap. So there's no technological solution.

Maybe the best thing people could do is sit down together in front of a
screen, watch the bombardments and search their hearts.
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