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No the comment is not about dictators, it is about democracies falling. Update: take for example google/twitter/facebook and how they have a lot of control ove
by walid 11y ago
No the comment is not about dictators, it is about democracies falling.
Update: take for example google/twitter/facebook and how they have a lot of control over what we do online. Because they have that info they can influence our lives. Facebook's mood experiment is a recent example. Also if a picture of an election candidate is shared a lot, that candidate gets more votes by causation. Google/twitter/facebook don't have a political agenda behind their abilities and people are concerned about their influence. It makes more sense to be concerned about politically controlled agencies.
- golergka 11y agoCompare facebook's live feed to TV programming in the era when you only had about 4-6 channels in your box, and your whole social circle was watching them — which applies much more peer pressure to consume this data channel than you have today to continue reading your facebook/twitter feed. Please, stop analyzing things as being "good" or "bad". By any reasonable person's standards, the whole today's world is just awful. It's not usable. Use "worse" and "better" instead: when we compare things to one another, only then can we get somewhere.