@atomicpoet I'm saying all around... If outros is really worried about surveillance by China via TikTok, they should avoid all the other platforms if even only 1/10th Edward Snowden said is truth

@atomicpoet everyone is saying the new #Utah laws go too far. They do. But #social platforms are to blame for building the most addictive algorithms and doing nothing to protect children from dangerous often inauthentically pushed scam trends.
#socialmedia

@atomicpoet Agree on all of this.

@atomicpoet With YouTube specifically, I feel like the sheer volume of content, whether entertaining or educational, would be a logistical impossibility to store (at least, for now) without something like alphabet inc. owning it. I feel like a good bandage for the time being though is using different front-ends, like invidious, to get rid of the surveillance tracking & ads. As for the rest…
Let them burn. (If you have a different opinion please let me know, genuinely curious what your thoughts are.)

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Most companies see something to exploit. If you are filling an unmet need, you are exploiting that need. Unless you are using exploit to mean taking advantage.

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Not all people aware of this data and privacy. They literally just see big social as a way to meet others and promoting your work. And some who knew, think they have no other way but to join the mainstream.

Things have grown to the point there's no such thing as privacy and holy data.

@atomicpoet Late stage capitalism and people earning profits off of their echo chambers.

@atomicpoet Humans are social animals. The storytellers myth of the rugged individual is just that, a Hollywood myth. Sure, anecdotally, you can find some that would prefer solitude for various reasons. And, that's ok. But the majority of humans need other humans.

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I have another one.

Facebook and Twitter supposedly get funded by taking our private data and selling it to anyone willing to pay for it. Supposedly, this is why their services are free.

This business model turned out to be bad, so now they are looking for ways to charge us money.

If they are charging us money, why do we allow them to sell our private data? They are making us pay to get exploited.