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kyub@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It was very much disinformation. The whole satanic panic bullshit was based on far right propaganda.

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I can’t find any corroboration of that, can you say more? The D&D thing specifically was started by someone whose son committed suicide and she attributed his death to D&D.

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    • NannerBanner@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The right wing of america and the various christian cultural movements/monoliths have been allies since roughly the reagan campaign. The power of that alliance is a large part of the republican’s base/power. The politicians on the right have a great deal of push on them to parrot christian talking points, like the satanic panic of various flavors that was pushed about music and activities like D&D.

      So while the d&d being evil may not have started as right wing propaganda, it quickly became so due to the way the cultural onus of christianity pushed politicians into acting. You can see the same thing with ‘christian’ values around political fighting with abortion, teenage pregnancy / sex education, israel (though that one is obviously much more complicated than just ‘church leaders fetishes -> politicians’ stances), ‘morality’ based laws around prostitution and gambling, etc.

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That doesn’t sound like a disinformation campaign though.

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    • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In addition to what the other poster responded, the “satanic panic” was fanned to divert attention away from very real pedophile rings. Just like pizzagate was started to deal with leaks of the epstein/trump ring.

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Source?

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• Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  To be fair, this was likely a reverse problem of today: not enough social media or freely flowing info via the internet.

  People who did not know assumed much from manual covers.

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We thought the Internet would be our salvation… wow were we wrong.

    Funny side story: we also though that technology, particularly AI, would save us - again, swing and a miss (tbf, LLMs != AI, so we still don’t truly know, though we’ve lost hope for it anyway since even if they did exist they would be controlled by the elites not applied to the good of of all humanity).

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• SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have no clue what FUD stands for. But as I’m too lazy to look it up, I have to assume it’s something satanic.

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  • kyub@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Stands for “fear, uncertainty and doubt”. It’s actually a very relevant term. In a lot of contexts. It’s when people influence you to either fear, have uncertainty about, or doubt something. Sometimes this happens without any intent, for example if you’re unsure about some new situation or thing, you tend to first view it more negatively because you have some fear or doubts about it (which might not be warranted). But sometimes, it can have malicious intent (e.g. right-wing extremists spreading FUD about human subgroups they don’t like. Usually the first step before more aggressive behavior happens).

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  • airman@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. FUD.

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  • BrickEater@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have no idea, second time I’ve seen of today, the other was in a Plex comment section

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Fear, uncertainty, doubt. Strategy to get people to refrain from doing something

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• its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I immediately lose all confidence in people willing to use FUD in 2026 years since Jesus died for our cringe.

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• Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There have been similar moral panics about whatever the kids were doing throughout history, including comic books, jazz, prose literature, the waltz, polyphonic music, and even writing stuff down instead of just remembering it.

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  • yelling_at_cloud@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But polyphonic music really does summon the devil!

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