Perhaps instead of #ageverfication nonsense, those who want to protect the children should look at why these platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube and the like are "bad" for them and everyone else.
Here's why:
They are TRADING PLATFORMS. Not video hosting platforms, not social networks. NO. People have to trade their attention (watch ads), data, or currency to use these platforms who make over 90% or more of their profits from these trades. Is like calling a Mall a Social Gathering Event Hall. It is not!
At least they should force these platforms to be renamed/re-labeled.
And you know what else? The harm/addiction of these platforms is not solely their incentive to make people trade more (more ads, more data trading, etc.) to keep them on the platforms is the fact that in this society pretty much everyone has a shitty meaningless life. If people were to be taken care of, and not have to trade all of their lives in a boring and stupid job, with them being worth only when they consume, then smarter and relaxed humans would give 0 fucks about these platforms.
When you are out and about, with friends, are not stressed about how to pay for your life, then why do you give much of a shit to post and scroll on these silly platforms?
How come I do not give a flying fuck about these platforms and what people post on them? Because I am busy with more relevant shit!
SO.
Wanna change something?
REPLACE.
Replace these trading platforms with trade-free ones like Friendica, Peertube and the like. If you are a government, support them!
Replace the meaningless life of most people with meaningful ones. Give people their basic needs as trade-free. Via an UBI or trade-free basic services. This way you don't even have to support those trade-free platforms. People will! The same people who do it now, but who also have to struggle to have a day job in order to keep their work on these platforms going. Imagine having millions of people able to get involved and change this world!
Free people from the Trade-Society!
This way you don't even have to fight with these big corporations. Let them fade out! Let them die.
#facebook #tiktok #TradeRuinsEverything #money #tromsite #trom #capitalism #youtube #trade-free
Rokosun
in reply to Tio • • •> like are "bad" for the and everyone else.
I think you meant to type "them" instead of "the" here.
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in reply to Tio • •Aren't the media good guys?
It looks as if they want to make it better; that’s why they are telling us about the racism, that’s why they are exposing the low wages, that’s why they remind us again and again about the bullying.
... Show more...But we should keep a darker point in view; the media need this conflict far more than we do. If they didn’t, there would be so many other ways to proceed. They could get curious about why the problem had come about, they could allow for atonement, they wouldn’t need to set the price of apology impossibly high, they would behave like loving parents do when children have strayed.
Instead, they give themselves away through their remorselessness; when it might be time to calm a situation down, they return with manic energy to the original offence; when there might be an opportunity for solutions, they keep giving voice to those who are unreconciled and furious.
The entire business model is premised on walking past solutions. It doesn’t look like it (they are clever enough to cover their tracks)
Aren't the media good guys?
It looks as if they want to make it better; that’s why they are telling us about the racism, that’s why they are exposing the low wages, that’s why they remind us again and again about the bullying.
But we should keep a darker point in view; the media need this conflict far more than we do. If they didn’t, there would be so many other ways to proceed. They could get curious about why the problem had come about, they could allow for atonement, they wouldn’t need to set the price of apology impossibly high, they would behave like loving parents do when children have strayed.
Instead, they give themselves away through their remorselessness; when it might be time to calm a situation down, they return with manic energy to the original offence; when there might be an opportunity for solutions, they keep giving voice to those who are unreconciled and furious.
The entire business model is premised on walking past solutions. It doesn’t look like it (they are clever enough to cover their tracks), but they have zero interest in couples no longer hitting one another, they absolutely don’t want race relations to improve, they don’t want workplaces to be harmonious, they don’t want capitalism to function, they don’t want any wise accommodation between employers and employees, they don’t want countries to be at peace, they don’t want riots to cease and they certainly don’t want the environment to be — on balance — OK.
Their lifeblood is unhappiness. They will have a job only so long as we continue to squabble and to wound. They are the enemies of what they claim to seek for us.