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Just realized the mimeographed church newsletter my uncle ran in 1979 never got him censored, but my HOA Facebook post about the pool gate did
He typed his rants on a stencil, ran 200 copies, and handed them out after service for a decade with zero pushback, while I got a 7 day mute last Tuesday in a 400 person group just for asking why the gate code hadn't changed since the Rodriguez family moved out, which makes me think the difference isn't the message, it's that nobody can scroll past a sheet of paper.
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nelson.dakota9d ago
My buddy Dave ran a fishing club newsletter back in 2011, printed like 80 copies at Staples every month and mailed them to members, and he ripped into the town council over the boat ramp fees for two solid years with zero problems. Then he posted the same exact stuff in the club's Facebook group one time and got flagged and tossed in Facebook jail for a week. The paper version sat on people's kitchen tables and they had to actually read it, but the second it hit a feed it was just another thing to swipe past and report. Nobody screenshots a photocopy, that's the whole thing. Paper forces a pause and a feed just rewards the fastest angry click, so the rules end up totally different even when the words are the same. Your uncle was basically invisible and you're not, and that's the only real difference.
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