There are still too many channels available people. Because people still care.
Also, governments don’t like it when corporations murder people. It’s that whole monopoly on violence thing. They tend to take that seriously. The only rich asshole so far to face prison over the Panama Papers, was arrested for ordering the murder of a journalist.
Which is why governments give non-lethal ways for corporations and the rich to ruin someone’s life. It’s cheaper and a living example is more of a deterrent than a martyr. There are also dozens of creative ways to ruin a life through the courts.
Yeah… here in the third world, activists trying to stop power plants that are being built in the middle of forest preservation areas though governmental corruption just to supply multinational mining companies are just murdered and have always been like that, even though their names and legacies are carried through other projects (here we even have a governmental agency called Instituto Chico Mendes, in homage to one of them) the general population have no idea who they are and that this is happening https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15092026/at-least-124-environmental-defenders-killed-in-2025/
That includes a series of laws used to restrict the rights and funding of environmental and Indigenous organizations and leaders. The “Social Transparency Law,” for example, allows the government to freeze defenders’ bank accounts, which has happened to prominent anti-mining activists in the country, inhibiting their work and ability to make basic transactions to buy food and support their families.
Ecuadorian anti-mining activists told Inside Climate News they’ve had terrorism and money laundering investigations pending against them for nearly a year, and fear the government could decide to arrest them at any time, even without filing formal charges.
Last fall, Noboa deployed the military to suppress nationwide protests against his policies, including oil and mining expansion. Two Indigenous defenders were killed during the demonstrations. One was Efraín Fueres, 46, who was gunned down during a protest march. Military officers then approached Fueres, who was lying in the street with a companion kneeling over his body. Armed officers surrounded the men and began repeatedly kicking the companion, video posted to social media shows.
Seems like it’s the government doing the killing, or sanctioning the killing.
Which is the point I was making. The government is making a fuck load of martyrs, which gets more people to fight back, because that’s their only choice.
Whereas in the first world countries, the government violence wielded against the people on behalf of the corporations, is more nuanced and less immediately lethal, and often more effective because of it.
Seeing the other comments I find it very cute how determined you are to believe people with absolute power play by the rules and shit and there’s nothing shady going on and they aren’t misusing that power to hide it.
There’s actually plenty of activists, journalists and whistleblowers with convenient mysterious deaths surrounding them but you believe the content of every ruling of suicide and stuff, like they can’t possibly corrupt the whole system they fund, and people exposing powerful people just like to kill themselves. You are very useful citizen.
Basically none.
See, killing someone makes them a martyr Sueing them into the ground or just buying the newspaper and firing the journalist generally does not.
They control the media, the search engines, the algorithms, the llms, they choose who becomes a martyr and who you won’t hear about
Yes and no.
There are still too many channels available people. Because people still care.
Also, governments don’t like it when corporations murder people. It’s that whole monopoly on violence thing. They tend to take that seriously. The only rich asshole so far to face prison over the Panama Papers, was arrested for ordering the murder of a journalist.
Which is why governments give non-lethal ways for corporations and the rich to ruin someone’s life. It’s cheaper and a living example is more of a deterrent than a martyr. There are also dozens of creative ways to ruin a life through the courts.
Yeah… here in the third world, activists trying to stop power plants that are being built in the middle of forest preservation areas though governmental corruption just to supply multinational mining companies are just murdered and have always been like that, even though their names and legacies are carried through other projects (here we even have a governmental agency called Instituto Chico Mendes, in homage to one of them) the general population have no idea who they are and that this is happening https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15092026/at-least-124-environmental-defenders-killed-in-2025/
Seems like it’s the government doing the killing, or sanctioning the killing.
Which is the point I was making. The government is making a fuck load of martyrs, which gets more people to fight back, because that’s their only choice.
Whereas in the first world countries, the government violence wielded against the people on behalf of the corporations, is more nuanced and less immediately lethal, and often more effective because of it.
Seeing the other comments I find it very cute how determined you are to believe people with absolute power play by the rules and shit and there’s nothing shady going on and they aren’t misusing that power to hide it.
There’s actually plenty of activists, journalists and whistleblowers with convenient mysterious deaths surrounding them but you believe the content of every ruling of suicide and stuff, like they can’t possibly corrupt the whole system they fund, and people exposing powerful people just like to kill themselves. You are very useful citizen.