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Yeah keep in mind that both political parties heavily use private data farms to narrowcast campaign advertising. Facebook is just one of those. Basically there’

Yeah keep in mind that both political parties heavily use private data farms to narrowcast campaign advertising. Facebook is just one of those. Basically there’s a private sector spying industry and the government enjoys the benefits too. TikTok is messed up for many reasons. One being it’s a waste of everyone’s time. Two, foreign nations getting a treasure trove of video footage on a massive populace in the age of AI. This WILL lead to a faked mass-casualty event using real identities of people to cause political unrest. Just a matter of time—and data. Going back to the article though, the social media baseline needs to be fixed as well. The OG Facebook platform was actually GOOD—lots of good-natured value in human connections. Then they started cutting in the bad shit reducing its purity. TikTok took that to a whole new level and put in some home grown Singaporean crack. Ironically, the Chinese and Singapore have hefty penalty’s for drugs—and yet they thrust it onto the western sensibility. After all, it’s the WILD WEST.

TeMPOraL 2y ago
> Ironically, the Chinese and Singapore have hefty penalty’s for drugs—and yet they thrust it onto the western sensibility. After all, it’s the WILD WEST. One almost wants to say, revenge for the opium.
frapaconi 2y ago
Got lots of down-votes. HN needs to implement a feature requiring a REASON for down votes.
- solarpunk 2y ago
  you are basically making the same old "digital fentanyl" argument that nancy fucking pelosi has been making for the last year. it's just not that compelling.
  - frapaconi 2y ago
    Not really… per the article the baseline of privacy is being reduced. I’m illustrating a parallel with social media where the baseline good human connections is now how to make the most addictive attention-getting experience. How is this not relevant to the base post? A shifting baseline toward the worse.

TeMPOraL 2y ago

> Ironically, the Chinese and Singapore have hefty penalty’s for drugs—and yet they thrust it onto the western sensibility. After all, it’s the WILD WEST. One almost wants to say, revenge for the opium.

frapaconi 2y ago

Got lots of down-votes. HN needs to implement a feature requiring a REASON for down votes.

solarpunk 2y ago
you are basically making the same old "digital fentanyl" argument that nancy fucking pelosi has been making for the last year. it's just not that compelling.
- frapaconi 2y ago
  Not really… per the article the baseline of privacy is being reduced. I’m illustrating a parallel with social media where the baseline good human connections is now how to make the most addictive attention-getting experience. How is this not relevant to the base post? A shifting baseline toward the worse.