Banning Not Only TikTok... if Not for FOMOC (Fear of Missing on Constituents)
Nations worldwide, and even the EU, quickly realise what social control media is really for, who controls it and for what true purpose (Elon Musk and KSA can be no more malevolent than the Communist Party of China?), but politicians are addicts (FOMOC) and they believe they'd lose their power or get mobbed by social control media (e.g. "viral" phony scandals) for trying to regulate it.
This leads to inaction and sometimes a weak/cowardly response.
This has long been a problem. This is why social control networks have long attempted to 'capture' politicians and make/render them addicts, in effect becoming a gateway (or barrier, not bridge) between them and their voters. The people who control social control media then determine the outcome of elections. They're gatekeepers.
What does this do to the general population? This Australian site speaks of "manipulation" and radicalisation of youth. Australia is wrong to assume that only youth is at risk; the same policies it put forth for under-16s it should consider applying universally. As social control media obstructs free speech, arguing that banning or suppressing it is "censorship" sort of inverts the narrative. On top of that, there's FOMO, or the Fear of Missing Out. It's a sort of addiction by peer pressure.
"Underneath the FOMO, isolation is first cultivated. So that drumbeat of FOMO via social control media actually establishes mass isolation. That makes several generations very vulnerable to manipulation," an associate says this morning.
The problem isn't limited to TikTok. They say TikTok is bad because they don't like its masters. Almost everything politicians say about TikTok is equally applicable to Facebook and Twitter (X), except we're meant to think Donald Trump's enablers are OK?
In recent years many people quit social control media; most of them just simply became inactive. They stopped logging in. They stopped participating.
Rather than block or ban social control media we can collectively abandon it. Advertisers will do the rest by divesting. █