The internet’s fast-moving, even-faster-profit-ringing nature guarantees more Buzzfeeds and Vices will sprout up, vying for our attention, baiting our worst instincts.
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Meta has announced they will begin a payment verification service called Meta Verified. It is first being tested in Australia and New Zealand.
When the carrot emoji is eventually nixxed, another vegetable, or fruit, possibly animal, will take its place. The very human need to prick holes in overarching authority will keep asserting itself.
Podcast, Leaving the Left for Liberty
Ryan Hartwig vs. Section 230 Big Tech Collusion | Leaving the Left for Liberty | Ep 16
Ryan Hartwig was a content moderator for nearly two years working for Cognizant, subcontracted by Facebook. He reviewed and deleted groups, pages, posts, comments, and videos for Facebook and Instagram.
There are a million reasons to participate on social media, but on the conservative alternatives you are left with only one, and it is the worst.
Zuckerberg can rechristen his empire, but he can’t outrun the public’s associating him with Facebook.
If Facebook is taking its cues from the government to mute vaccine skeptics, that complicates the “let business be business” argument.
The “security of self government” promised by Jefferson will never die as long as you and I fight for it.
It’s become increasingly acceptable for tech companies to censor or deplatform prominent people and organizations who hold controversial or unpopular opinions.
The move towards privacy is global, and when privacy becomes a commodity, technology and the free market will provide it, whether Twitter or Facebook likes it or not.