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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You may never have heard of the AAAA, the Advertisers Against Advertising Alliance..


Imagine a cigarette-company wants some advertising-work done..

Imagine that you're dead set against cigarette-companies, but they don't know that..

Imagine getting the contract, & doing advertising-design for them, where they get an advertising-campaign which to them looks good, but .. doesn't work on people..

Imagine that that is exactly what you had intended..

No card-carrying, no meetings, no visible-connections: only independent people contributing independently.

( I suspect that the drugstore "Life" brand, at Shopper's Drug Mart was done by a member of the AAAA: NOBODY with health-sense would buy that shit, as a result of the campaign they had, years ago, when I lived in a city )


Now remap it from AAAA to someone ordered to redact evil, to protect the regime against accountability..

Imagine you know exactly that this highlighting-with-black won't work..

Imagine that this is exactly why you use the method: to protect accountability, in a dying-empire's deathspasms..

It then becomes possible to "do one's job" & be complicit within the regime ( but notice those falsifying-quotes! ),

while one protects integrity, Justice, & accountability, by doing one's "job" in a way which enables actual-Journalism, should there be any left, to dig-in..


Beauty, eh?

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[–] Karkitoo@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Sooo, malicious compliance?

My favorite