alt Hacker News> Will it be me for voicing this concern on the clearnet?
No, because you're no threat to any such powers. For an oppressive regime, the optimal number of critical voices against it is non-zero.
It needs to be enough that people get to vent their anger before it metastasizes into actual actions, but it needs to be too little to spark threatening action.
You're striking that balance perfectly, meaning that you do exactly what it would want for you. => You're good.
>The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
Noam Chomsky