Final beef: 2. The professional engineers of the spectacle, the journalists, seem the most taken with their creation. Typically, good dealers don't use. But the spectacle is so blinding, so uncoupled from any reality anymore, you can comfortably live inside it, and we do.
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Or privacy as the big deal, and GDPR was the great savior. Well, GDPR didn't do shit, and if anything, solidified FB/GOOG's market position in the EU (which I wrote about extensively, to much jeering). Nobody gives a shit about privacy really, so I guess that's gone.
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Now, it's disinformation, something that's unavoidable in any disintermediated system with free(ish) speech where Joe Tin-Hat can beat the reach of a NYT piece if he's inflammatory enough. But maybe since FB is blocking marginally more than it used to, that story will die.
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I'm cataloging two years of talking points to illustrate that much of the conversation has been as mimetic as the FB platform itself, with questions rising and never quite resolving, and being dictated by whim and viral happenstance.
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