Technology

I think I stopped using Facebook more than a decade ago. Never had Instagram, never had tiktok. Dropping Whatsapp is my struggle.

In fact, it seems like all Info and Tech companies really hopped in line with Trump like fucking right away and I’m worried that not even that critical mass of 3-4% of the country is even able to protest, much less if that many people even want to

Meta is actively pursuing government contracts for uses of its supercomputer it's putting online next year and it's AI investments. They are becoming a defense contractor essentially. To acquire contracts during this regime, I'm sure they will give any backdoor and facial recognition assistance the Pentagon asks for.

Being redundant to say this. People are actively posting pictures of themselves, their families, and their locations continuously and sending them to a government defense contractor. Posting their activities, hobbies, who they interact with, their food, et cetera.

If news companies cared about people's privacy, they would be broadcasting that on every network warning the population in my opinion. But that would piss off the U.S. government, and they don't want that.

The dichotomy between the left and right on these kind of issues are probably more economic than anything else.

The people I know that freaked out about these sort of things were typically maga types. Lower income, lower education, and relied on social media for all kinds of news, human contact, and such.

Meanwhile most liberals and conservatives that didn’t, lived more comfortably with higher career and education levels. This isn’t even really a left wing vs right wing kind of thing. Even the conservatives I knew that had higher education and career accomplishment freaked less out about Covid and social media “censorship” too because they could just do without.

If you can live comfortably and it doesn’t affect your living, you tend to not rock the boat

Compare that to the right during covid who would take screenshots

Be more specific. Do you mean how sites were taking down covid conspiracies that were getting people killed?

Also, these sites aren't free speech platforms. They're advertisement platforms. They should be burnt to the ground.

Yes, clearly the handful of people with no power that advocate for Socialism or Communism are what is wrong with our country now.

I think you are confused and are perhaps really wondering why centrists keep getting moved to the right.

Both dominate political parties in the US are fascist in nature. You have the authoritarian fascists and you have the neolib fascists.

Picking on the left is just a convenient scapegoat at this point. It is low hanging fruit and is pretty pointless.

They were getting whipped up and manipulated. A lot of that shit you are talking about was not organic. A lot of the shit you are talking about was pure paranoid mass delusion. A moral panic just like a classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_panic. It's a feature of the left that such things DON'T spread the same way.

Thank you good sir, i almost had to read a potty word. Thanks for making the internet great and save again.

"We can say 'fuck'," this lemmy user wrote.

FB has been normally Right wing propaganda arm for ru, for like a decade. i think they might have ramped it up. plus AI bots are probably running the site anyways.

Big tech has gone full fascist for a bit now