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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is making you think he doesn't exist. Even without active censorship, Facebook very much is a gate keeper invading you

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is making you think he doesn't exist. Even without active censorship, Facebook very much is a gate keeper invading your personal space. It's just rather than building up walls around you, it's merely giving you a shovel and showering you with dopamine bursts every time you dig yourself down into your own personal hole. The end effect is the same, though -- all you hear is echos bouncing off walls around you. You just think the echos are only your own. I agree a free society shouldn't tolerate amending private citizen's conversation. However, that comes with the responsibility of recognizing the more insidious ways of doing that, such as when your attention has been hijacked with industrialized behavioral profiling. The "private citizen conversations" you hear bouncing off your walls are being algorithmically seeded by whatever brings in the most dollars the most efficiently. That's not a truly free society, that's just a very subtle form of mass indoctrination. The devil already exists out there whether you think he does or not. And when you play with the devil, the only winning move is to not play his game.

Nasrudith 6y ago
The real hillariously devious move is the devil does not really exist as a literal thing. Yet he causes people to carry out the agenda by not only scapegoating it for their selfish desires but from countereffective attempts to fight the devil. If he was real it would be easier to learn and recognize an actual bad actor and their mechanisms. That can't be done when it is fake. Attempts to fight are always a wild goose chase when building something good is the only actual way. "The secret to my success is that I do not really exist."
BTCOG 6y ago
Completely wrong. You do not have to at all use Facebook, or Twitter. They are a private website, and it is you and others who so choose to go onto their platform and post your own private information, and allow them to moderate your own private conversations. The problem is that all these people never should have allowed that from day one. I can 100% honestly say that I work professionally in network engineering and I do not and have never used Twitter, Facebook, or even a LinkedIn profile. They are not required, they are information silos and you've chosen to go into someone else's domain and host your private thoughts there for others to moderate. That's the problem. Create your own hosted website like the web is made for, and keep your conversation and your own personal control there. Period.

Nasrudith 6y ago

The real hillariously devious move is the devil does not really exist as a literal thing. Yet he causes people to carry out the agenda by not only scapegoating it for their selfish desires but from countereffective attempts to fight the devil. If he was real it would be easier to learn and recognize an actual bad actor and their mechanisms. That can't be done when it is fake. Attempts to fight are always a wild goose chase when building something good is the only actual way. "The secret to my success is that I do not really exist."

BTCOG 6y ago

Completely wrong. You do not have to at all use Facebook, or Twitter. They are a private website, and it is you and others who so choose to go onto their platform and post your own private information, and allow them to moderate your own private conversations. The problem is that all these people never should have allowed that from day one. I can 100% honestly say that I work professionally in network engineering and I do not and have never used Twitter, Facebook, or even a LinkedIn profile. They are not required, they are information silos and you've chosen to go into someone else's domain and host your private thoughts there for others to moderate. That's the problem. Create your own hosted website like the web is made for, and keep your conversation and your own personal control there. Period.