I don’t believe that to betray democracy will ever be “technically impossible!!!!”
It all boils down to ETHICS, not TECHNOLOGY. And ALL the “Social Network” COMMERCIAL platforms are NON-DEMOCRATIC BY DESIGN. They’re basically no different in that respect than traditional (corporate-controlled) broadcast stations. Regards / Saludos / Grato Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes > On Jan 22, 2018, at 9:52 AM, carlo von lynX <l...@time.to.get.psyced.org> > wrote: > > No need to follow the link, here are the interesting snippets: > >> Now, we’re as determined as ever to fight the negative influences and ensure >> that our platform is unquestionably a source for democratic good. > > Just like democracy is no longer a democracy if somebody could > decide to switch off, say, separation of powers or verifiability > of vote, democracy is no longer a democracy if one corporation > has the choice on whether to be a "source of democratic good" or > secretively possibly unvoluntarily be not so. Therefore, the fact > that Facebook has achieved such a role is unconstitutional. > Actually, the way the whole Internet is easy to eavesdrop and do > big data analysis upon is making every democracy whose voters use > it struturally a post-democracy. How long until we regulate this? > >> Our role is to ensure that the good outweighs the forces that can compromise >> healthy discourse. > > Incorrect. No online platform should have this much power to > make such decisions. > > Further articles comment on the good and bad of social media, > entirely neglecting that a properly regulated Internet would > eliminate the risks of social media and only leave us with > the good aspects of it, so there is zero reason to continue > dealing with the threats of technology as if the benefits are > inevitabily interweaved. That is a fallacy, albeit a > remarkably popular one. > > So do yourself a favor and skip reading those articles, they > are only trying to convince you that Facebook is a reasonable > company to entrust with the power to corrupt democracy, as if > the Malvinas incident in 2009 hadn't already proven the opposite. > > You can have all the apps and Internet fun you like, but to > betray democracy must be technically impossible. Such an > abuse-resistant Internet is possible. Society has to care > and to regulate. > > If anything of that sounds wrong or exaggerated, then you are > missing some of the clues. I can fill you in. > > -- > E-mail is public! Talk to me in private using encryption: > http://loupsycedyglgamf.onion/LynX/ > irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/lynX > https://psyced.org:34443/LynX/ > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at > zakwh...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at zakwh...@stanford.edu.
