"This digital feudalism is cloaked in the language of care and safety. The owners of these walled gardens insist that they are benevolent patriarchs who have built fortresses to defend us from external threats, but inevitably they are revealed as warlords who have built prisons to keep us from escaping from them"
By @pluralistic on this fantastic essay about #socialMedia and #walledGardens
nice take/comparison yet way to soft considering the reality of digital totalitarianism they created
@patrickgillam @xurxosanz @pluralistic
ALT: The corporate person is a selfish narcissist, a paperclip- maximizing artificial lifeform forever questing after its own advantage. It is an abuser.lLike all abusers, it is keenly attuned to any social dynamic that it can use to manipulate its victims, and so social media is highly prized by these immortal colony-organisms.
@patrickgillam @xurxosanz @pluralistic
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I actually used the native OCR function in my instance to generate it, which is a lovely toy I can't resist using at every opportunity.
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