Enter another piece in The Guardian, this time about social media, with many holes and a veritable Hobson's Choice, pushing regulation by Big Gov't or Big Tech as the only binary choices
There is a concerted push for «online safety» type legalislation (online harms Bill in the UK for example) and recent EU legislation placing the responsibility of content on social media on the owner of the platform. Of course, all of this is actually a thinly veiled push for more censorship, and a push for that censorship to be done by PRIVATE actors, so that the state can claim “nope, no state sensorship here!”. It has nothing to do with “online safety for kids” or whatever crocodile-tear reasons and propaganda pieces that are being used to front this push.
Expect to see in the near future digital ID as a requirement to be online, and “free speech” heavily moderated by “big tech” on behalf of the state. They are eager to take back control over what people think. Former Norwegian prime minister and WHO stooge Gro Harlem Brundtland summarized the elite sentiment well when she said: “we’re losing control over what people are being told”. Indeed you are, Gro and co….
Big Gov't and Big Business has long been in cahoots, and the pace and scale of their collaboration has only intensified after WW1 (this doesn't mean it wasn't there before 1914).
My main point here is: don't expect anything good coming from either Big Gov't or Big Business.
As regards Gro Brundtland: I know, and it's so weird because Norwegians are so brainwashed into believing in the limitless goodness of esp. the UN (just look for 'UN Day', which is an unofficial holiday here that doesn't exist anywhere else).
My parents never let my brother and me have a television or telephone (landline, back in the day) in our room.
I suppose any parent who wants the state to get involved should look in the mirror, strike a confident pose, and recite, "L'état, c'est moi" until he is convinced of it.
Same here, but it's perhaps also a generational shift.
Take, e.g., 'my' students at the university these days: they're all younger than the internet, which was commercialised in 1997. They don't know the world 'before'.
As to your second paragraph: I've got nothing to add. Sigh.
Good Q: I think, it might, for these are highly-curated 'opinions' here.
The share of people who opt out--via homeschooling, Sunday school, etc.--is rising, like with legacy media vs. alt-media. I suppose that the 'collapse' of Big Tech will be faster than, say, public school systems, but the end result will be quite comparable.
There is a concerted push for «online safety» type legalislation (online harms Bill in the UK for example) and recent EU legislation placing the responsibility of content on social media on the owner of the platform. Of course, all of this is actually a thinly veiled push for more censorship, and a push for that censorship to be done by PRIVATE actors, so that the state can claim “nope, no state sensorship here!”. It has nothing to do with “online safety for kids” or whatever crocodile-tear reasons and propaganda pieces that are being used to front this push.
Expect to see in the near future digital ID as a requirement to be online, and “free speech” heavily moderated by “big tech” on behalf of the state. They are eager to take back control over what people think. Former Norwegian prime minister and WHO stooge Gro Harlem Brundtland summarized the elite sentiment well when she said: “we’re losing control over what people are being told”. Indeed you are, Gro and co….
Exactly.
Big Gov't and Big Business has long been in cahoots, and the pace and scale of their collaboration has only intensified after WW1 (this doesn't mean it wasn't there before 1914).
My main point here is: don't expect anything good coming from either Big Gov't or Big Business.
As regards Gro Brundtland: I know, and it's so weird because Norwegians are so brainwashed into believing in the limitless goodness of esp. the UN (just look for 'UN Day', which is an unofficial holiday here that doesn't exist anywhere else).
My parents never let my brother and me have a television or telephone (landline, back in the day) in our room.
I suppose any parent who wants the state to get involved should look in the mirror, strike a confident pose, and recite, "L'état, c'est moi" until he is convinced of it.
Same here, but it's perhaps also a generational shift.
Take, e.g., 'my' students at the university these days: they're all younger than the internet, which was commercialised in 1997. They don't know the world 'before'.
As to your second paragraph: I've got nothing to add. Sigh.
Can it be turned into a positive?
I haven't a clue as to how.
Good Q: I think, it might, for these are highly-curated 'opinions' here.
The share of people who opt out--via homeschooling, Sunday school, etc.--is rising, like with legacy media vs. alt-media. I suppose that the 'collapse' of Big Tech will be faster than, say, public school systems, but the end result will be quite comparable.