Facebook is a factory farm for human beings. It is not your friend, it is not fundamentally good, it is an extractive and exploitative machine. Let’s stop expecting it to be what it is not and regulate it to limit its abuses. PS. Google, etc., have the exact same business model.
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Let me put it this way: if Facebook or Google started truly respecting your privacy, they’d go bankrupt. Expecting them to do this – and to do it voluntarily to boot – is the heights of naïveté.
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#SurveillanceCapitalism? Easy: “Regulate and Replace” 1. Regulate people farmers like Facebook, Inc., Alphabet, Inc., etc. 2. Replace them with decentralised, free and open, and interoperable ethical alternatives funded from the commons for the common good.Show this thread -
And by “easy”, I mean “phenomenally difficult” unless we: 1. Admit they are fundamentally bad actors and label them as adversaries not partners so that their toxic business model becomes socially unacceptable. 2. Combat institutional corruption. 3. Change what we fund and how.
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has evolved to such a bread & circus culture. the challenge therein lies in the comprehension of what it means to be farmed & slaughtered. repeatedly. we’ve such a limited grasp of how we are manipulated -
Indeed, and both in making the case and in designing the alternatives, simplicity is our friend, complexity (and it’s bosom companion, the illusion of simplicity) is their’s. Sadly, it does mean we’re battling entropy :)
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I love the ‘case’ myself - but think the ‘answer’ (whatever that means!) is in designing a better alternative. And better as in better tasting *and* better for you. If it’s just the latter it will become a moral / class divide. Such interesting times w/ fascinating challenges
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