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Social media - whether it’s American or not is a cancer of the modern world. “Connecting people” - yes, connecting people and shoving them into echo chambers of
by systemvoltage 5y ago
Social media - whether it’s American or not is a cancer of the modern world. “Connecting people” - yes, connecting people and shoving them into echo chambers of left wing and right wing.
The uprising should come from the bottom, not from the top. The new generation needs to revolt against organizing political factions on the internet. Get together in person and canvas for your party. It used to be that extreme voices would have to go through the low pass filter of gathering support in your town, rallying for awareness and creating a movement. It was hard work and often not successful.
Now, any lunatic on Twitter can bypass the scrutiny of the public and blast a message through a ripple of cascading retweets. The more extreme, the better it appears. Vocal minority rules.
Big Tech needs to be regulated so it cannot shutdown conservative voices (now) and liberal voices (future). They’ll do anything to increase ad revenue at the expense of ripping the social fabric apart.
- webmobdev 5y agoVery well put - personally, even I have realised the need to fight the attraction towards the "echo chambers" that I am very attracted to on these platforms. Long term, they do tend to have debilitating effect on our psyche. Sociologists / psychologists urgently need to identify the signs of such addiction (so that regulations can be introduced to limit it) and also come up with some kind of "detoxification" therapy to help those already hooked on to such platforms. And yes, private corporations should not get to dictate speech on the internet or any other medium.