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This is an important thing to bear in mind - it's happening now, we are being spied upon, soft-censored, self-censored, and opinion-corraled. Facebook's news fe
by dTal 9y ago
This is an important thing to bear in mind - it's happening now, we are being spied upon, soft-censored, self-censored, and opinion-corraled. Facebook's news feed is a far more sinister mechanism for social control than any Pravda, since it is transparently tailored to each user. And it's proprietary. So we're robbed of a primary weapon against propaganda: the ability to collectively discuss it.
However...
>Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong and I don't think there's a way for us to stop it
I think that's going too far. I can think of far worse scenarios. We have GNU/Linux. We have Free encryption software, and BitTorrent. We have a social backlash against Facebook, people that recognize the problems and are organizing to combat it, a dim vision of a decentralized future that many software projects are struggling towards (IPFS et al). And none of these things are illegal. Yet.