Nadine
January 25, 2019, 12:48pm
20
I’m going to guess that Bhante would not be keen on having a Facebook page.
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.
Note I have edited this to add some extra content.
Following my previous exposé , in which I fearlessly aggregated a few links that confirmed my own bias, here is another installment in the groundbreaking series, “Facebook is Bad”. If you already think Facebook is bad, get ready to feel smug all over again!
Former Facebook & Google execs say FB is a ‘living, breathing crime scene’.
Apple CEO Tim Cook says: “I don’t have a kid, but I have a nephew that I put some boundaries on. There are so…
With as many forum members as we have, we should each be able to reach out to any Buddhist, or Buddhist leaning, groups in our own geographic area. That would cover quite a bit. Take a 100 square mile radius around your house, research the groups in that area, and contact them. Go in person if you can. Send a letter in the mail or find their website or social media account and get in touch that way if you can’t travel there. I find that acting locally gets a very good response.
7 Likes
