“The technology that was intended to free us has become the tool of our own oppression,” he said during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The social media that was supposed to bring unity, clarity and democracy have instead given us division, vice and a reactionary agenda.”
And yet, most EU politicians are still sound asleep while continuing to post on X as if nothing happened. And most EU newspaper’s favourite sentence is still "… as <insert_name> wrote on X earlier“ and embedding the message directly from X.
These people fail to recognize the danger until someone literally holds a gun to their head.
The eu has sent a warning to twitter, I don’t know if this has been followed up or not.
A (very) large international news labour union organisation has pulled out of twitter, I think that totalled about 150 news outlets
The EU should start with dropping Xitter and then start using their Mastodon server.
Don’t they always.
“The technology that was intended to free us has become the tool of our own oppression,” he said during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The social media that was supposed to bring unity, clarity and democracy have instead given us division, vice and a reactionary agenda.”
This is very telling.
The technology was never intended to free “us”, it was intended to make money.
Facebook was literally invented as a tool to bring misogyny to uni students, not unity nor democracy to anyone.
And from the very second they realised they could, those who own social media platforms literally jumped at the opportunity to sow division and influence politics, again, for money (and the power that comes with it, and with essentially being a mouthpiece for fascism).
Honestly, it’s getting really fucking old seeing all these people in positions of power try to oppose these latest developments but only being able to muster the most superficial of criticisms and while flat out refuse to acknowledge, never mind address, the long standing underlying systems that enabled them (or for how long, this isn’t new, before social media it was, and still is regular main stream billionaire owned media), and that will continue to enable them even if the current dictators running amuck are stopped. Because these people in the positions of power need those very same systems to maintain their own power, and will never fully commit to oppose them, which is what those of “us” they’re acting like saviours to, actually need.
Yep. Centralizing all that power in their hands is great for allowing them to control the narrative.
