• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    There’s not an epidemic of child porn.

    There’s an epidemic of governments wanting greater surveillance powers over the Internet and it is framed as being used to “fight child porn”.

    So you’re going to hear about every single case and conviction until your perception is that there is an epidemic of child porn.

    “You can’t possibly oppose these privacy destroying laws, after all you’re not on the side of child porn are you?”

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      Same with misinformation. Where anything they disagree with, in good faith or not, is misinformation.

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        It’s all part of ‘manufacturing consent’.

        There’s plenty of material out in academia about it (as always check your sources), if you want to get into the weeds