@junesim63 The EU needs to go further than just the @EUCommission being here. All government organizations communicating publicly need to do so on their own instances on an open network - which means the Fediverse.

If the EU enforces that, other countries will follow. That's how we disarm the algorithms.

#EUpol #Europe

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"Our Republic has already fallen.

Just slow enough for us to allow, and ignore, it."
SearingTruth

Before we just point fingers at the US, where do people in your circles get their daily news?

I'm already trying to get it into some of my friends' and family's heads that the likes of Instagram and TikTok are *not* reliable sources or news.

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@jerry what place are you in the richest man ranking again?

@junesim63 Capitalism. The issue is capitalism, and there is no way to reform it.

We rise to socialism and revolution, or collapse as a species.

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"Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights."

Albert Einstein, from his essay "Why Socialism"

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Too many rich oligarchs.

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No one owns Mastodon

See the solution here?

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Once the oligarchs control enough media, nobody will see any problems clearly, ever again.

@junesim63

"See the problem here?"

Yes I do: you and I and everyone else MADE THEM WHO THEY ARE and we did it, and continue to do it, WITH EYES WIDE OPEN. Even dare I say eagerly and with unbounded fanboi gusto.

Obviously, this is the world we wanted because no other creatures here are demanding five-nines uptime from a BS machine.

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Still don't understand how Oracle has made that amount of money.

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and why is nobody talking about Peter Thiel in this context?

#Oligarchy #Media #SocialMedia