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Summary: Some recent stories about emergencies ought to remind us that Social Control Media poses a threat to nations and populations; we need to move away from such platforms and encourage others -- including public officials -- to do the same

THE power of syndication via feeds (e.g. RSS) was routinely stressed here in recent years. There's a reason why many people don't even know what that means.

As the video above explains, Instagram being used by politicians in place of official communications is an ongoing problem which has not gone away with the demise of Twitter. They just don't seem to have learned their lessons from "X". Later on they moan that private companies such as Facebook/Meta, which owns Instagram, prevent or discourage access to news sites. This recently happened in Canada.

"An excessively centralised Web is actually a risk to functioning democracies and it moreover facilitates foreign/corporate interference."The real solution to all this is to teach the public to not use or not rely on these foreign companies and instead subscribe directly to news sites or politicians' sites. An excessively centralised Web is actually a risk to functioning democracies and it moreover facilitates foreign/corporate interference. ⬆