Poland's Political Predicament and Social Control Media
Related: When Social Control Media in the European Union is Controlled by BRICS
Today we finally started the series about the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) with Part I of a series that might be weekly, daily, or something in-between. Poland is in many headlines right now for purely political reasons. Since we're not a political site, we won't comment on them (we'll just link to some prominent coverage in Daily Links).
It certainly seems that Social Control Media played a considerable role in what happened to Poland. The media has barely mentioned this though, unlike in Romania (the EU was furious about what TikTok had done). The same can be said about Finland, where instead of working to tackle the "TikTok problem" many Finnish politicians have rushed to "embrace" and "master" TikTok for their "viral" "fix". Even Finnish media - including the national broadcaster Yle - rushed to embrace the very thing that was attacking it.
TikTok isn't the solution to anything. TikTok is a problem. Social Control Media as a whole is a problem.
If you have a Gemini client, then go read what "Molly" (pseudonym) wrote some hours ago about quitting Social Control Media. She did so exactly 6 months ago and now she boasts: "Six months into deleting my social media and ending all my uses of Big Tech, and it's like I'm a different person" (in a good way). In her GemLog she wrote: "I'm definitely calmer day to day and more satisfied with my daily life. I'm certainly not some kind of bodhisattva. I still get angry and annoyed and fearful and all the rest of it. But those states are less common, and when they do happen, they're milder and pass more quickly."
"Instead," she said, "I am very into my garden and chickens at the moment. Part of that is seasonal as well, but part of that is having the mental and emotional energy to put into project planning and execution. It's also having this newfound drive for real, physical activities that make real, physical changes in my world."
Every state ought to recognise that more tech (or fake tech, overt manipulation disguised as "tech") isn't improving anything. It may worsen sovereignty by giving control to whoever controls "apps" and thus information.
Democracy and fake "tech" don't mix well; the latter tends to interfere with the former and that's why we get more "Putins" out there. █