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Stop normalizing this and start normalizing filtering your parents internet with a Pi-Hole and blocking whole swaths of the right-wing ecosystem.
Everyone complains about people wanting them to be the computer guy in their family but no one ever uses that to protect their family from misinformation/disinformation and then blame it on their ISP.
...in Minecraft. (please don't actually do this to your parents)
Nothing wrong with doing both. I fully support using a Pi-Hole to block right wing misinformation/disinformation if the situation is appropriate.
I should also mention in reality this is just a shitpost. In real life there is more nuance to these decisions. I have read stories about people who's parents have been basically "gone" because of Fox News and other right wing disinformation sources and after blocking it they get their parents back usually within 6 months to a year. But it could also result in back lash. It all depends on the situation. I do feel strongly that Fox News should be blocked in hospitals and nursing homes (especially memory units) because it stresses out the patients and some of the content they run is directly contrary to a hospital's mission.
Well I'd say the nuance here is that while it's hard to break through when those ecosystems have a hold on them, and it's hard to compete with them, being a censorial editor for the elderly really only makes sense if they really can be considered not in their right mind and not have the capacity to think or care for themselves.
I don't really think censorship is the solution as much as finding a way to break the spell of whatever has overtaken right wing thought.
I think the public right wing response to both Luigi Mangione and to Musk promoting H1Bs shows that while they've sucked down racism, on some level they understand that the corporate world exists to harm workers. They just haven't found solidarity with the workers of the rest of the world yet, and it's finding a way to crack that barrier and get them to see themselves in others. I think it's very hard but not impossible.
I think part of the problem is the nature of our media and how consolidated it is and how rare real independent news media is at the moment in this country. I think we'd do better to tackle that at a community level than we would to just outright censor it.
Like, an example... You have a child and you want to know what they're watching on television for their mental health. Is it better to watch those things with them and discuss the themes and ideas with them and help them contextualize it all in a healthy way or censor the things you don't like and never discuss them so the child enters the world wholly without the knowledge of these subjects. I'd say based on personal experience that the latter doesn't work out so hot for the kid.
Censorship and control of information without discussion isn't a good path, whereas openness and communication is.
EDIT: Also, in response to hospitals, I do agree, it should be nothing but like calming nature documentaries or chill kids cartoons. All family friendly stuff with nothing stressful to promote healthy recovery. In the context of hospitals I'd say its less censorship and more "genuinely people need fewer stressors so they can heal." Removing stressful and divisive television solves that.
I totally get what you mean. If we can educate people it would be more powerful than just blocking it. But for some people maybe it's hard to educate them. It's for sure a complex issue.
Why shouldnt you ?