34 points | by noplay an hour ago
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During the 2011 London riots, there were proposals to ban Blackberry.
Can we have this worldwide and forever?
Censorship.
I am all for eliminating the antisocial media and the billionaires behind them as well, but I fail to see how censorship fixes anything.
When people are rioting for things that didn't happen, because they think they did, because of messages being sent to them by an enemy, then you stop that enemy.
This is dystopian.
Meta’s content algo is engineered for sensationalism. It inherently encourages instability.
For more on the algorithm not being good
https://www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-ignores-brazilian...
People socializing at all inherently encourages instability for the government.
Wait till you read some of the far left or right newspapers and leaflets in France. Why aren't those being banned?
France has crossed a threshold that it can never come back from without complete upheaval of their late-stage socialist state. It's a failure.
This is an absolute crisis for the EU.
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Socialist state?
More like that Macron does not stop spending too much. Countries such as Denmark or Canada show how to do better than Macron did.
During the 2011 London riots, there were proposals to ban Blackberry.
Can we have this worldwide and forever?
Censorship.
I am all for eliminating the antisocial media and the billionaires behind them as well, but I fail to see how censorship fixes anything.
When people are rioting for things that didn't happen, because they think they did, because of messages being sent to them by an enemy, then you stop that enemy.
This is dystopian.
Meta’s content algo is engineered for sensationalism. It inherently encourages instability.
For more on the algorithm not being good
https://www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-ignores-brazilian...
People socializing at all inherently encourages instability for the government.
Wait till you read some of the far left or right newspapers and leaflets in France. Why aren't those being banned?
France has crossed a threshold that it can never come back from without complete upheaval of their late-stage socialist state. It's a failure.
This is an absolute crisis for the EU.
[delayed]
Socialist state?
More like that Macron does not stop spending too much. Countries such as Denmark or Canada show how to do better than Macron did.