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Social media and tech companies are effectively helping external actors (and malicious internal actors) to break western democracy.
by ycombinary 9mo ago
Social media and tech companies are effectively helping external actors (and malicious internal actors) to break western democracy.
- ndsipa_pomu 9mo agoQuite - that's been patently obvious since the Cambridge Analytica scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana... Ultimately, there's a war between the haves and the have-nots and one side clearly has more resources.
- ycombinary 9mo agoYeah. It's demoralising.
- amelius 9mo agoYes, that is the final observation needed in the proof that open societies are more brittle than those led by dictators.
- ndsipa_pomu 9mo agoAn open society shouldn't have all the mainstream media in the control of just a handful of people - that's a recipe for abuse and cover-ups. It reminds me of hierarchical religions where just certain people (e.g. priests) have access to the "higher powers" and can thus mislead the masses.