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road-rhythm https://road-rhythm.tumblr.com/post/663401381122752512/one-of-the-things-that-bothers-me-about-moral :

One of the things that bothers me about moral panics about fiction is that there really are conversations we need to be having about the ways some kinds of media—algorithmically driven ones in particular—are indeed constructing our reality to a degree never before seen, and what it means to exist as a human being in an era where the internet has become infrastructure nearly as essential and ubiquitous as roads but is created and governed almost entirely by highly corporate entities that concentrate capital on a virtually incomprehensible scale and have absolutely no incentives to prioritize anything other than profits. Like, yes, under surveillance capitalism, there is a meaningful sense in which your consent to what content you will be exposed to is being coerced on a regular basis.

But fiction isn’t where it’s happening. It’s just not. If anything, recreational fiction is the one place where your freedom to nope out of something uncomfortable remains intact.

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