Topic: I want to censor my internet (Read 1887 times)

I get what you meant, if you make a decent filter bubble you can avoid most of the junk, some gets through but that variance provide objectivity.

The biggest issue with the news is under reporting and people needing to connect their own dots a good example was the topic someone else posted here about an Indian being rejected entry into the US due to Trump ban.

The US politicians lobbied for him to enter the country, then he went and assaulted a young girl and the US news decided to not follow up on that story in the live news, instead it gets mentioned as a note on the BBC and non-mainstream media.
(Example of something against the narrative getting ignored by the mainstream)

Your point about the BBC is true though, objective wise compared to the US outlets it's tolerable for USA news but for UK news you probably know best their positions on Brexit and various issues so finding a neutral outlet for UK news would be good.

If you can connect dots decently you can still find the real point of view but ideally the news should be able to context these things but since they don't always do that people need to be objective and analyze it between sites.

For UK related news, a non UK outlet would work best although the Financial times is not bad, kind of like the National Post (Canada one).
Either way best of luck on building it.

Indian thread
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/muslim-athlete-initially-banned-by-trump-arrested-for-child-sex-abuse-in-us-1811362

Interesting Article:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-democracy-survive-big-data-and-artificial-intelligence/

I think it will be very difficult for you to do. A lot of the media print on the pages of comments of experts which can be biased. Nowadays, any information should be verified in different sources and to analyze.

Its very unfortunate that globalisation comes with its own ills and that have even add to the soci-economjc problem we have today. Although, you cannot control what people post online because not all of us have the same moral attachment to several issues but you can as well control what you receive to a large extent. I have had to defriend a friend on Facebook and ban him because he is always fond of adding me to useless group at the same time I have deletes so many groups that are not adding value. We can not stop them, but we can control the flow to us.

It is necessary to make a selection of the sources of information that you can trust, and this issue needs to be very good and adequate analysis. And the main merit of good agencies that is their objective.

Thanks for the link to that Wiki page - it gives me a name for what I am trying to describe, my 'filter bubble'. I'd like more control over my own filter bubble.
I'm cool with being in an isolated culture if the alternative is being overloaded with junk.

I'm in the UK, I do pick through a few of the news sources you mention but I can tell you that the BBC are always pushing their narrative.
My favourite news source is probably the Financial Times, because they attach less emotion and/or fear mongering to the stories.

Don't have much experience with US news outlets....

I was not distracting ads on websites. Distracting advertising on YouTube, but it cannot be turned off. More distracting ads on TV, but it also cannot be turned off. Nowadays advertising is everywhere and from it to hide will not work. Easier to learn not to react to it.

I guess you're right. There are certain sites I unblock because they hold the content im interested in. I'm not like you apparently because I think advertising without control through adblock is too distracting for me.

I would like to censor the world around me. Bad things keep happening and I don't want to see or experience them anymore. I want to be only surrounded by nice things which make me feel nice.

I would say to the OP that we both stand a roughly equal chance of getting what we want.

There are website and content blockers that may be useful to you. Those blockers are made especially for children so they cannot watch pornographic and violent filled and graphic sites. This kind of software may be helpful to you but as you are an adult you just need to disallow and block manually the sites that you hate and turn-off pop ups that automatically opens links that you dont want to open.

I had also had a negative attitude towards advertising, but now I can concentrate on the essential and is not distracting me. Besides, sometimes advertising is what I need. Through advertising many things we have for free. Accept or pay.

It depends if you want to avoid the mainstream media just get your sources on the USA from other countries where objective reporting still exists.

Nhk Newsline from Japan, the BBC at times in the UK they are far more bias to Brexit , CTV or CBC from Canada, RT is pretty honest despite all the US fear mongering about it being the Kremlins shouting point from Russia, Al Jazeera from the Qatar,Dubai or CCTV from China to name a few.

The point is as long as it's not from the USA it probably is ok to watch news related to that country through it and not feel like being hit by endless propaganda waves.
Just be careful not to do the safe-space logic where everyone lives in filter bubbles that is a scarier thought than 1984 and the thought police, it would be the self-created thought police.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

I use adblock which serves me very well against unwanted commercials which to me is the biggest irritant on the internet. For the rest, I choose what read or watch, sometimes you waste a coupler minutes of your life but even then I'll retain some infromation.

Unfortunately the answer is no, so you will need to do the filtering yourself, what you consider to be useless propaganda and what you consider to be useful information.

https://www.opendns.com/

will let you set up some filters.

25fps?
Either I missed something, you are in the wrong thread, or you are smoking the best of the drugs.

And to OP, tune out completely then. We weren't designed for this level of stimulation, electronics resemble drugs in the way they engage our pleasure centers. Also, with communications technology at its current state, you are always being advertised at, and those ads are designed to subvert your will. Don't expose yourself to this needlessly.

We lived for centuries without TVs. Cellphones and PCs (and most other consumer electronics), while useful, are only tools if used as such. Otherwise, they are entertainment. And too much entertainment without work will make you soft.

It seems to me that it is not possible. It has long been known that 25 fps is a fiction. Same thing with other technologies of this kind. I think everything is much easier. People inspire thoughts through the fake news.

Quite separate from PRIVACY (which is another important issue). The concern is if the over-stimulation of a certain type of message is effecting me without my knowing (a bit like subliminal messaging etc.)

I can attest (though not for so long a time as that) this does work. Technology use nowadays (which is mostly entertainment or convenience) is mostly habitual. Unconditioning those habits, or replacing them, is healthy. And a note on privacy from state actors. Even if you could hear all the voices in the room, it would be hard to separate a single voice and hear it clearly through the cacophony. That's the current state of affairs with government surveillance. You are psuedo anon, like bitcoin, because it's hard to single out one person with all the noise. When you listen to all the Facebook posts, from the LOL cats to the fight clips, eventually, you tune out everything that isn't "I am a crazy head and intend to do harm to myself, or others".

So, just be aware you are always on record, if you use an electronic medium of communication. It doesn't diminish you, which is the most important thing. But it does give you some considerations.

But when they tune in, you are quite fucked.

Do you get a 'reset feeling' after doing that?    I'd be interested to hear your experience.

That is such a great idea and I've contemplated doing weekend or week away in the wilderness - 3 weeks is really quite a long time, maybe that's what's required for a 'reset'?.

Have you done this?