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  • The child is playing a role in a propaganda film.

    Who do you think controls who can film what and where in Gaza? Hamas of course.

    This doesn’t mean everything in the film is a lie, but you shouldn’t take it at face value.

    This conflict has a decades oiled propaganda machine on both sides.

  • Interesting idea for sure. I’m not sure it would work though. The concept has lots of cultural implications as well. In traditional monarchies the king is usually divinely ordained, chosen by god. A democracy doesn’t get its legitimacy from above, the people are the ultimate sovereign and legitimize the system. New Monarchy also needs some kind of higher philosophical justification.

    Political systems often have a short slogan, that emphasizes their values.

    • No gods, no kings, no masters
    • liberté, égalité, fraternité
    • Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
    • blood and Soul
    • for god, king, and country
    • one man, one vote
    • SPQR

    New Monarchism could use one as well.

  • The linked concept of New Monarchy doesn’t have a king. It contains asymmetric votes between classes, which is an interesting idea to keep a check on the aristocracy. I don’t think the system is fully viable as a concept, but it makes a good point at the beginning. If we get an elite ruling class anyway in every system, let’s make it more visible and directly accountable.

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  • Privacy isn’t particularly good in the fediverse. Any federated instance can track you as much as they want without you ever knowing or consenting.

    Self hosting Lemmy is straightforward. Then subscribe to all communities and now you have a treasure trove of data to mine. If you modify the code a bit you can do more like keep deleted posts around or surveil user activities in real time.

  • The BBC itself https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clydv5yngq4o

    The BBC has removed a documentary about Gaza from its iPlayer streaming service while it carries out "further due diligence" after discovering its 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official.

    The broadcaster has been criticised for Gaza: How To Survive A War Zone, which centred on the son of Hamas's deputy minister of agriculture.

    The BBC said it had not been informed of the family connection in advance by the film's production company.