Just as tobacco companies knew they were poisoning people, today’s social media titans knowingly poison our politics, peddling lies and stoking angry divides for profit
If only somebody would design an open and federated protocol to replace giant social media platforms in a way that destroys the ability of billionaire monopolists or anyone else to use the network effect to lock people into their psychomanipulation machines.
Nah, we’ll just make them tweak the dials towards less disinformation and more safe-for-advertisers messaging.
If only somebody would design an open and federated protocol to replace giant social media platforms in a way that destroys the ability of billionaire monopolists or anyone else to use the network effect to lock people into their psychomanipulation machines.
Nah, we’ll just make them tweak the dials towards less disinformation and more safe-for-advertisers messaging.
“BuT iT’s So UnCoNvEnIeNt AnD No OnE wILl EvEr UsE iT”.
Hopefully, someday these voices will be silent.