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Freedom of speech is not freedom to microtarget billions of people, aided by technology to change their minds to act according to bigoted principles. I'm fully
by shrimpx 7y ago
Freedom of speech is not freedom to microtarget billions of people, aided by technology to change their minds to act according to bigoted principles.
I'm fully on board with Cohen, except that he doesn't go into enough detail about what Facebook is. Facebook is no longer a social network on which you can connect with friends and share your thoughts and aspects of your life. Facebook is an influence-amplification network where with enough money you may change the minds of hundreds of millions of people.
In other words it's ad targeting that when taken to its logical conclusion becomes the ultimate propaganda system.