On 28/01/18 08:35, aryt alasti wrote: > True though all of that is, if tens of thousands of people are relying > on Facebook for their connectivity to activism and dissident > viewpoints, then pressure should be put on Facebook to cease with its > blatantly suppressive practices. > > > > Aryt
This never worked and will never work, as said Thomas Delrue here: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Jan 28, 2018 4:59 AM, "Thomas Delrue" <tho...@epistulae.net > <mailto:tho...@epistulae.net>> wrote: > > > Facebook isn't there to 'connect us', Google isn't there to 'help you > find things on the Internet'; they (and others) are there to sell you > ads, extract revenue from you and to keep you docile so you can be > shown > more ads and so that more revenue can be extracted from you. If that > means that anything that is bad for business is swept under the rug, > removed, blocked... if that means cozying up to the current Power > of the > Day that provides them with access to this "set of eyeballs" but has a > tendency to crush dissent... well so be it. > > This is grossly demonstrated in the negotiations conducted by Facebook with the Israeli government to censor the Palestinians [0], and the meetings that the two companies had with China and other countries without democracy governments. I was reading more examples in these years, but now I'm lazy to look for them: you can find them in a quick search. What I see as an increased problem is the fact than people seems to be more anesthetize about the use of Internet that in the past: nobody (*even* IT people) wants to use emails anymore. I suffer it on my own interactions. If even my close contacts (included "activists") refuse to use emails... what can i do? to remain alone or to adapt to the majority and to do what I know is not correct? Is an obvious thing we need to rise our voices, the danger is to become as hamsters running inside a wheel and believe we are going a long way. I agree on most people is using FB, Telegram, WA, and Google products to interact and search for information. I agree on Thomas' observations, but in the middle we have a problem: the vacuum has to be filled... with education? with what? I don't know. But to say "people is dumb" is not enough and will not stop them, specially those living under desperate situations. I don t know the answers, I try to find them and experiment with possible solutions since years, and the scenario turn worse from the past to now. I think all the critic voices need to join on try to find an accessible solution for the ones that are in real harm because if it s just to criticize them it will not change anyway. Love, Cristina (99) [0]https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Social-Media-Imperialism-Facebook-Bans-Palestinian-Content-at-Behest-of-Israel-US-20171230-0023.html -- Esta comunicación puede ser ilegal y/o legalmente recogida, almacenada y utilizada por distintos actores. Si duda sobre el contenido a compartir, evite enviarlo sin cifrar.
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