Subharo
October 22, 2021, 1:16pm
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@Dana , there are 3 other long-winded threads that I’m guessing you haven’t read yet:
Continuing my series of cutting-edge exposes of Big Social, a couple of new articles that paint a worrying picture of how Facebook is contributing to the decline of democracy in Cambodia, the Philippines, Myanmar, and elsewhere.
Autocratic governments have learned how easy it is to hijack the platform, flooding it with click-farmed likes while identifying and crushing dissent. Facebook’s response has been at best apathetic and at worst actively complicit.
So, remember that thing where Facebook is bad? Just in case you forgot, here’s Richard Stallman’s page on this (thanks @Charlie ):
https://stallman.org/facebook.html
But don’t worry, Facebook is on it! They’ve developed a new plan to solve the problem.
There’s a growing awareness of the toxic influence of social media platforms like Facebook and so on. Of course, there’s always been people who think those things are horrible and never use them (Hi there!) The difference is, the latest wave of voices doesn’t come from outsiders, but from the people who built the platforms.
Facebook’s first president:
Facebook’s ex-VP of user growth:
The guy who invented the “Like” button:
Seriously, close your account.
I’d like to invite Apologists for Social Media to post in one of the above three threads, instead of in this thread. This thread is for people who want to discuss Non-evil platforms for Buddhist monks/nuns to post on, escaping GAFAM/FAANG/whatever , not for those wishing to cast FUD on the utility of doing so.
Whether a house is infested with one rat, or one million rats, the onus on a house owner is to try to have their house rat-free. Go ahead and argue that the Network Effects that one million rats have managed to achieve have created an entitlement for them to stay, so let’s keep the status quo and do nothing. You know, “might makes right,” for those powerful, unbeatable rats. Sorry, I’ll never be convinced of that.
