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Let’s just choose to not have social media — let’s consciously delete it as a society. Just because we experiment with a technology doesn’t mean we can’t chang
by happytiger 3y ago
Let’s just choose to not have social media — let’s consciously delete it as a society.
Just because we experiment with a technology doesn’t mean we can’t change our minds.
At the very least, we can have completely decentralized systems that don’t have an Elon or a Zuck running them and enshitifying them.
We have eliminated this possibility from our thinking, as if it’s inevitable we have to go in this direction and if only we could figure out the “right way” the technology wouldn’t be used for casual enslavement if populations and exploitation of social phenomenon for centralized control.
There is no good model for social media at this time, but we sure have been able to find some downsides.
Social networks lead directly to opinion and societal conformity and will eventually be used for social control and credit systems. We should turn them off before they enshrine themselves in the center of daily life.
Mark my words. You merely have to look at the Eyghurs in China to see where this technology is going.
- notfish 3y agoFYI the Uyghur genocide thing was spread in the western world primarily by Adrian Zenz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Zenz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Zenz Dude works for the “Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation”, a US government propaganda branch. He’s not really a reliable source.
- bloppe 3y agoThis must be the same guy calling Putin's special military operation a "war"
- happytiger 3y agoI think the condemnation of 40 countries is pretty compelling, as well as what Randall Schriver, US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, said: "at least a million but likely closer to three million citizens" were imprisoned in detention centers, which he described as "concentration camps". I mean, I saw Adrian’s video. It’s cool too. But if you’re trying to say none of this is happening because the guy who’s pushing it isn’t credible, I can’t agree with you. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps