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That's an interesting take, AND it is enforceable. It's very difficult to serve immense numbers of people with social media. Scaling takes resources and techni
by Applejinx 2y ago
That's an interesting take, AND it is enforceable.
It's very difficult to serve immense numbers of people with social media. Scaling takes resources and technical expertise and lots of energy. You could treat it like trying to catch pot growers by watching their electric bills. I don't think there's a way around that, technically: to do the monoculture (and control it) absolutely requires intention, resources and concentration of effort in an obvious way.
Yeah, you can secretly administer multiple internet social communities and pretend it's not you, but that already happens too, and it's less effective than the monoculture, plus if you're doing that it smells funny, makes people ask 'why are we being governed to think this way through secret avenues' which is something people strangely don't ask about the monoculture.
Whether you can get society to sign on to this 'central control can get this big and no bigger' is much like asserting 'rich men can get this rich and no richer'.