Fossy@programming.dev to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoIn 2009, the plan to pedestrianize Broadway drew opposition from nearly everyone in New York City. Today reverting the street back would be a non starter.cdn.imgchest.comvideomessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up1241arrow-down12
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minus-squareDaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·14 hours agoA democracy needs informed citizens. Poor education and manipulation from politicians makes it easy to fool someone in to voting against their own interests.
minus-squarejimmy90@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·13 hours agomost of all media needs to be about truth and authenticity freedom of speech and anonymity fundamentalists don’t recognise the threat to democracy equally censorship and doxxing is also bad for democracy there must be a balance and at the moment it is far too tipped towards liars
A democracy needs informed citizens. Poor education and manipulation from politicians makes it easy to fool someone in to voting against their own interests.
most of all media needs to be about truth and authenticity
freedom of speech and anonymity fundamentalists don’t recognise the threat to democracy
equally censorship and doxxing is also bad for democracy
there must be a balance and at the moment it is far too tipped towards liars