I read /r/Canada regularly, and I have formed a strong belief that domestic government propaganda (or to be more epistemically cautious, misinformative messaging, intentional or not) is a much bigger problem.
Do you believe I have formed a necessarily incorrect belief?
I don’t recall the deeper substance of the disagreement anymore unfortunately.
>I read /r/Canada regularly,
This subreddit was subject to a number of studies in relation to echo chambers. The mods chose to ban all conservatives. At least this was true many years ago. It's possible they have since stopped doing this, but I don't know because I was perm banned.
>I have formed a strong belief that domestic government propaganda (or to be more epistemically cautious, misinformative messaging, intentional or not) is a much bigger problem.
My take was that the mods for r/canada are liberal party affiliated and curate content against the conservatives and to a lesser degree the ndp.
So yes while the liberals are in power, it doesn't quite logically follow for me that this is equivalent to 'government propaganda'
Now outside the context of r/canada. The CBC can be seen as domestic government propaganda. Obviously defunding the CBC is #1 most popular position the Conservatives hold.
It's unclear to me why the CBC decided to give up on their political neutrality but in the end conservatives are never going to be able to fix this situation. Defunding is the only option. It's only a matter of time until this is the case now.
>Do you believe I have formed a necessarily incorrect belief?
Going back to my comment above that it's possible they stopped banning conservatives. It's also possible they got even worse. I really don't know. It's completely reasonable that you know more then me as I havent been on that subreddit in many years.
I know way back in the day there were often sticky threads saying they'd stop censoring conservatives but then just get caught again and again doing it.
This is generally true of how almost the entire world runs (only to the degree that it is though, of course).