Yes, somehow better than slogans, except the negative ones.
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It is all sponsored media, with unthinking people copying it everywhere. I mentioned Facebook. Ever heard of George Soros? Ukraine war? Syrian war? That the anti-war movements of the last 50 years were owned? The “refugee” “crisis”? Chatham House? “Global warming?” They own what’s out in the open, sure, and they own the fake opposition. Karl Marx (a nineteenth century Russell Brand, banker family)? Do you study real history or simply what your friends say (feel-good memes)?
I enjoy studying history and viewing feel-good memes. Everything created is sponsored if only by the creator. Everything is propaganda including that which is offered by the anti-propagandist. If one is offended by the term meme then think of it as a statement on top of a picture.
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This one was posted by the founder of slockit
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St-A-y SAFE. Be SAFE. C: ANTS.
(D-Rust. This one doesn’t make much sense.)
This message brought to you by the anti-war movement.
By the way, if the main argument is about unthinking people spreading actually bad propaganda, this is “unthinking” people spreading around good propaganda. It’s really the most absurd form of thinking to think otherwise. Nothing can be done about it until people finally learn about literally every single aspect about the world/this project. And I think that’s an absurd expectation.
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Memes often seem to appeal to what is common and familiar.
Typing Safe to Google threw a few familiar phrases:
Safe Haven
Safe Search
Safe House
Safe Mode
So, perhaps variations on those appealing to people’s emotional instinct and wanting privacy; security; and freedom.
Privacy Policy
Privacy Screen
Security Jobs - there’s opportunity there’s for create devs
which prompts perhaps allusions to ye old wild west and kick back to “the way the internet should have been built”
Freedom Pass
Freedom of Information
and the a thesaurus of those might also spawn meme like appeal?
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Safe Haven for Your Data
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I’m not sure what it means 
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I know these memes can come off as cheap labels and sound bytes but I’d like the sponsored media especially in the US to become known as facist media. I know most people don’t know exactly what the term means, they know it negative and their isn’t perfect agreement on its meaning but it conveys a lot of what the core problem is.
But to me the only kind of media organization that isn’t prone to becoming fascists and going down that route is one that is set up by charter and by law and culture and every other means to never ever and I mean ever take money from anyone that is not one of their legitimate end users in proportion to their numerical make up, which precludes ads of any kind. It also means things like no outside funding of pensions and no one on a board that sits on another board and not even dealing with sub contractors that don’t meet these standards (where possible.) And of course I’d want them as flat and cooperative as possible. It also means no parasitic investors who could try to shift this for profit. Its got to have no conflicts of interests with regard to its readership so its probably set up like a credit union with reader ownership or at least control, but again in proportion to numerical make up and on the strength of ideas.
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Please refrain from derailing the OP.
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I think of fascism simply as government where the laws are dictated by profiteers. Memes about government corruption are a great way to remind us that we can be better than we are right now. It is important not to belittle individuals but ideas and systems are always open game.
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Ok but it doesn’t derail the OP at all. “unsponsored media,” and meme fragment "fascist media. [quote=“optictopic, post:36, topic:8352, full:true”]
I think of fascism simply as government where the laws are dictated by profiteers. Memes about government corruption are a great way to remind us that we can be better than we are right now. It is important not to belittle individuals but ideas and systems are always open game.
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I agree.
Didn’t read it all… I hope this wasn’t posted already:
What happens on the network stays on the network
What gets put on the network stays on the network
something like that.
Edit: grammar
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Here is Motherwell’s contribution…
Or perhaps, “A PROBLEM SHARED IS A PROBLEM… …MAIDSAFE”
Or, “A PROBLEM SHARED IS A PROBLEM… …MADE SAFE”
Or, “A PROBLEM SHARED IS A PROBLEM… …TRILLIONTHED”
Or, “A PROBLEM SHARED… …IS A PROBLEM TRILLIONTHED”
OR ALL OF THEM!!! 
edit; I also like the idea of using the quote, “If you build it, they will come” but haven’t thought of an appropriate image.
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United Nations: Universal Declaration of Human Rights [Article 12] “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy…”
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