I think this title from #Techrights says enough on its own. "Common Mistake: Believing Social Control Media Will Document Your Writings/Thoughts and Search Engines Like Google Will Help You Find These"

"Social Control Media" == "Social Media" and Techrights does lump Mastodon into this category.

#SocialMedia
#SocialControlMedia

This week in #Australia, laws have been rushed through parliament by the two #majorParties. It allows the "#MinistryOfTruth" (below) the ability to hack into accounts, "change" or #memoryHole data.

Greens party senator, #LidiaThorpe, says "…this bill enables the #AFP and #ACIC to be 'judge, jury and executioner'. That's not how we deliver justice in this country."

https://lidia-thorpe.greensmps.org.au/

#privacy #oppression #surveillance #1984 #socialControlMedia #facebook #fakebook #selfHost

Articles | Lidia Thorpe

Can someone produce a film called #Funnelled?

It would be about 8 people that are controlled by #socialMedia algorithms and they somehow come together and realise that they've been "funnelled" by #BestForm, #Fiddler and #4plan three platforms.

They have to unlearn a bunch of stuff, and find new ways to #communicate, #organise, and erradicate the #socialControlMedia platforms, before people are locked in physical silos to perform tasks for the giants for 3c per task.

#film #thriller #addiction

> people trying to control society (and who they want to be THEIR "friends" and not others) by means of rigged social networking software

#socialcontrolmedia
Facebook to tighten live stream access after mosque attacks

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@schestowitz
Sorry, my post above did not take into account the #socialcontrolmedia tag , so yeah, /offtopic I guess :/
ree - guard the Web from the disease which is #socialcontrolmedia ht
ensuring plurality of opinion

thx @Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) 4 the new #meme

=> #socialcontrolmedia

some users (most from #diaspora ) carry out here the same
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♲ @Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ([email protected]): Do note that #twitter #facebook and other #socialcontrolmedia giants are actively and knowingly profiting from ads that promote #fascism destruction of the WWW etc. It's all about money to them. Pro-Trump, anti-Trump... all about "engagement" to them
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Never ever rely on #socialcontrolmedia for news gathering because few, potentially malicious, agenda-filled private corporations 'curate' them. Use RSS feeds instead https://gnusocial.de/url/5355996 see http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/feed
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