Re:The Erosion of Democracy Is Your Fault
by tremon on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:37AM
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Correlation in time is not causation. Just because two events appear on your radar at roughly the same time does not mean they are connected. And it sure as hell doesn't mean I accept personal responsibility for those events.
The erosion of democracy in the United States did not begin with Facebook, nor will it end with Facebook. Facebook merely is profiting from an ongoing process of propaganda, deregulation, and selling out to the highest bidder that has been going on since at least the 1970's, if not much earlier.
I don't have solutions for the US: every fix is predicated on fixing another part of the system first. Whether it's about education, policing, prisons, healthcare, lobbying, surveillance, finance, or corporatism in general: the US population has been held hostage to money for over a generation, and everything that needs to be fixed is now entrenched.
Abandoning Whatsapp for another app is not going to make one iota of difference. Want to really change things in this area? Go advocate for the Signal protocol to be submitted as an RFC with mandatory server-to-server federation. Make sure there's an open-source, easy-to-deploy server implementation, and then go haunt the ITU to mandate its deployment for the 5G+1 standard. Advocate protocols, not apps.
The erosion of democracy in the United States did not begin with Facebook, nor will it end with Facebook. Facebook merely is profiting from an ongoing process of propaganda, deregulation, and selling out to the highest bidder that has been going on since at least the 1970's, if not much earlier.
I don't have solutions for the US: every fix is predicated on fixing another part of the system first. Whether it's about education, policing, prisons, healthcare, lobbying, surveillance, finance, or corporatism in general: the US population has been held hostage to money for over a generation, and everything that needs to be fixed is now entrenched.
Abandoning Whatsapp for another app is not going to make one iota of difference. Want to really change things in this area? Go advocate for the Signal protocol to be submitted as an RFC with mandatory server-to-server federation. Make sure there's an open-source, easy-to-deploy server implementation, and then go haunt the ITU to mandate its deployment for the 5G+1 standard. Advocate protocols, not apps.