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Iranian teenager who posted distorted pictures of herself is jailed for 10 years | https://buff.ly/3oHkw8m by @patrickwintour
Jailing a girl for using a filter is a tiny reminder of how autocracies /theocracies/ dictatorships work...
& what we seem to take for granted in the wake of this election.
We are nowhere near Iran.
But Democracy is more fragile than any of us thought.
& what we seem to take for granted in the wake of this election.
We are nowhere near Iran.
But Democracy is more fragile than any of us thought.
The threat is not over.
There's the Court & the court of public opinion.
One seems to have held.
The other has broken.
A shared fact base seems quaint, in an era of socially inflated filter bubbles
There's the Court & the court of public opinion.
One seems to have held.
The other has broken.
A shared fact base seems quaint, in an era of socially inflated filter bubbles
There can be no debate of facts with people who live in an alternate dimension.
When their gravity - what grounds them - when their sun- what powers them
are so different, we are alien.
We're sliding rapidly from an inability to see inconvenient truths to idiocracy.
When their gravity - what grounds them - when their sun- what powers them
are so different, we are alien.
We're sliding rapidly from an inability to see inconvenient truths to idiocracy.
