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Therein lies the issue. To be blunt, human nature is tribalism, it's desire for food and sex, and, unfortunately, it's waiting until something is a matter of li
by bilbo0s 7y ago
Therein lies the issue. To be blunt, human nature is tribalism, it's desire for food and sex, and, unfortunately, it's waiting until something is a matter of life and death to respond.
Activists imploring people not to watch YouTube and whatnot in 2020, should work just about as well as activists imploring people not to watch MTV and play Doom worked in the 90's. I predict we'll basically have to wait until something better comes along to unseat the incumbents.
That said, it's also highly likely that whatever unseats the incumbents will have all the drawbacks activists didn't like about the incumbents. Just as CoD or Modern Warfare still gets blamed for school shootings today, Doom was blamed in the 90s. Just as MTV was blamed for making society less intelligent in the 90's, Twitter is blamed for the same today.
My suspicion is that whatever replaces Twitter or Youtube will be just as censor-able, (maybe even moreso with builtin tracking and tracing). It'll just have much more content on it, and that content will be prettier. I'm thinking in the digital information age, it's impossible to go backwards to privacy and freedom.
Different strategies will need to be pursued. Like surging information you don't want censored. Or having your devices generate believably fake access trails for trackers and tracers to follow.
I don't believe either of those are illegal in the US yet? Could be wrong though?
- mirimir 7y agoMost people won't care until it's their ox that's being gored. So the plan is having non-centralized alternatives ready to spread. Dark marketplaces are an excellent example. Sure, many have been taken down, but the demand is still there.
- rhaksw 7y agoYou're right, and social media users' oxes are being gored, they just don't know about it.
- watwut 7y agoThe only real solution would be economy that is not winner takes all. The way it is now, there is always one company with too much power.
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