Fascistic Regimes and Their Justices Will Leverage Social Control Networks to Their Advantage (Power Grab), They Won't Protect Constituents From Them
THERE'S this very old and racist guy who is now telling SCOTUS what to do (despite not being an acting president but a shameless insurrectionist and convicted criminal with dementia) and is defending a BRICS-controlled Social Control Network after intense foreign lobbying in his private home (not subjected to any transparency, except when there's an FBI raid). We don't want to comment much on political aspects of this charade but instead recall what happened in Romania (EU), where some company called "Bytedance" tried to elect a buddy of Vladimir Putin. Well, the judges of that nation unanimously votes to curtail this attempt and EU authorities took note too, issuing condemnation of Bytedance rather than of Romanian election officials, judges etc.
Social Control Networks are inherently against democracy because they cull voices and amplify propaganda. Even the supposedly "good" alternatives to Twitter or "X" are failing in this regard. They mislead by intention and they recruit for the echo chamber (controlled/supervised/manufactured groupthink) to repel opposing or dissenting voices (opposing the "masters" of the network, which might as well be a foreign government). Lies by omission/s - plus fakes (disinformation) and more - make that incredible easy. Mark Zuckerberg experimented with this more than a decade ago.
As MWL put it the other day, "[u]ntil it can prove otherwise Bluesky is just another company, sowing another crop of victims."
Of course, and the next "crop" affirms the narrative of a farm, where the "livestock" gets "free food" (before becoming food).
Well, "MWL did warn about Bluesky," one associate has said, but some people still take the bait and still believe there's some benign social control media out there. There isn't.
As the associate put it, "anyone with their eyes open can see it for what it is: no better than Xitter." (Twitter/X)
They are "controlling the voices and all the narratives, including the press because they too buy into the lies that it is a communications medium" (many politicians and governments still outsource all their important communications to this bigot).
From yesterday:
Instead of using "X" to condemn its "master" they should just do the right thing: leave. Detach and disengage from the propaganda machine. In his personal blog, Daniel Pocock wrote a lot this winter about why politicians - especially Irish ones - should have and should invest in their Web site, not some "handle" in a site controlled by Donald Trump's "boss" (or secretary). █