@giacomo
> These unsealed documents prove Big Tech has been gaslighting and lying to the public for years
To read this webpage I had to run allow it to run proprietary JavaScript from CloudFlare.com in my browser. As well as jsdelivr.net, which loads scripts from various Big Tech platforms. Oh the irony.
(Oh and actblue.com, whatever that is)
@giacomo
> These unsealed documents prove Big Tech has been gaslighting and lying to the public for years
To read this webpage I had to run allow it to run proprietary JavaScript from CloudFlare.com in my browser. As well as jsdelivr.net, which loads scripts from various Big Tech platforms. Oh the irony.
(Oh and actblue.com, whatever that is)
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@giacomo
> mainstream Social Networks are so toxic and addictive: it's a design goal of the BigTech running them
At the risk of splitting hairs, they're social media. Not social networks, connect people to each other directly, not through algorithmic mediation.
I say this because although these terms had different meanings in the Web 2.0 era, the term 'social media' in mainstream use describes what I call DataFarming platforms. Not social software in general.
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For example, see Jonathan Haidt's interview on Hard Fork, where he says in no uncertain terms that young people shouldn't be on "social media". But later clarifies that he's talking about DataFarming platforms in particular, and doesn't think everything on the net ought to be age-gated;
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I point this out because not all discourse that rails against Big Tech is actually against Big Tech. Some of it is spread by AstroTurf groups trying to achieve regulatory capture *for* DataFarmers. So we need to careful what we spread, and whose websites we link to.
If a site depends on tools controlled by DataFarming corporations, that tells us its operators don't fully understand the problem of dependencies on technofascist corporations. OR are actually working in the interests.
