meekmockmook

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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Facebook and Twitter have been hosting violent content for years and years. Facebook has contributed to mass murder. Twitter to countless suicides. Far more deaths can be attributed to their platforms than some goofy right wing startup. Th
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
The entire backbone of the internet should not be in the hands of less than 5 companies.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Every single player in this saga deserves nothing but contempt. Trump is reprehensible and his supporters are brainwashed. Big Tech conglomerates now openly disenfranchise and deplatform millions of people simultaneously through a coordinat
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
It's a problem when it's millions upon millions of diseased, lonely, violent, impoverished, manipulated people who now have no way to communicate and are heavily armed.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
There's been a serious problem im CA with Healthcare workers rejecting vaccines which are then either discarded or put away in a freezer. Only 25 percent of the supply has been used, including the ones reserved for dose 2.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Oh, of course news should be reported. But a week straight of panic mongering headlines? That does people a disservice and spreads fear for $. Big Tech and corporate media have a profit incentive in spreading terror.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Speaking from California, the only change we could make is convincing law enforcement to enforce the rules (they won't) and changing the bizarre vaccine restrictions that are leaving 75 percent of our doses in a freezer while thousands
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Uhh, Mozilla should maybe not be posting if this if they want to be The Privacy Company(TM)? I'll be switching my VPN to straight Mullvad instead of to a group that sold it's soul to Google. Same tech, less baggage.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
The vaccine works on the new variants. The variant spreads faster than previous ones, but in the end the rules don't change: Wear a mask, wash your hands, don't go inside with people if possible. People were sharing on a Facebook
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Another social media panic for no reason. Big Tech is the ultimate superspreader.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Yes. Antitrust enforcement is key to restoring democracy. Should be Priority #1
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Why joke? Thats a viable way to do it. No social network shoild be so large that massive global events can be shaped by it's executives.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
As I said in the Apple-Parler thread: Massive Big Tech conglomerates must be busted through antitrust enforcement and Section 230 must be updated to ban predatory algorithms which have inflamed 7 years of sectarian chaos and violence. It&#x
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Zuckerberg, Pichai, Wojcicki, and Dorsey have failed as guardians of the internet. Split their companies into pieces and let organic conversations happen again. I tire of them profiting off of hate while spamming the world with ugly art of
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Parler, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook were definitely used to storm Congress. Snapchat, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook also were definitely used to burn down parts of Minneapolis, Chicago, and LA. Massive Big Tech conglomerates mu
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Lol Big Tech spying on their own. Beautiful.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Our country would not be in this mess if antitrust laws were used to bust up Facebook, Google, and Twitter years ago. Our leaders were all but bribed by the VCs and their lobbyists to look the other way while our social norms and sense of r
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
The US Government and Big Tech oligarchs learned nothing from the death of Aaron Swartz. Horrific.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
No thank you. Keep Google away from my television.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Wherever Big Tech goes, poverty and civil unrest follows. Name me a single city in which Silicon Valley dominates where there aren't homeless everywhere. Massive income inequality creates populist rage, and populist rage creates either
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Silicon Valley and the media created the Donald Trump presidency. The one bright side of today's nightmare is that the case for antitrust against the Big Tech companies is as clear as day. These conglomerates purposely designed toxic a
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Where did you end up? And did you feel your quality of life improve?
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Heh. Maybe I should start looking at property in Costa Rica or Finland or somewhere just totally away from it all.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
100 percent true. No shortage of blame to go around and this is certainly not new either. We've just accelerated very fast during a year of deep suffering and this kind of thing is inevitable, sadly. I'm a firm believer in wieldin
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
The cognitive dissonance and total denial is off the charts with telecom and tech leaders who don't realize (or care) that their massive growth has played a large role in global civil unrest. The general public is terrified and angry a
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Looks like somebody didn't like Wonder Woman 1984. I think folks on social media are overthinking the motive. A lot of people (most?) hate telecoms and big tech companies (including their employees and contractors) and someone decided
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
I personally don't hate Mastodon but I've never found an instance that clicked for me. Feels like a more confusing Twitter but happy to be re-educated
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Molesting? Catcalling? Holy cow, is that cynical. You think the women I met and the friends I made are victims? These are people I still stay in touch with 15 years later. Who said anything about dickpics except for you? The internet has be
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
BTW: Come say hi. http://spacehey.com/jdb
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
A world without newsfeeds and algorithmically/SEO driven culture wars? A world without our social lives being manipulated by shady Big Tech firms and VCs, free of corporate surveillance? A man can dream.

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