Comment on If social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse.

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why though? I think the Arab spring says otherwise.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Arab Spring had other non-authoritarian/less-authoritarian countries influencing them.

    Imagine it’s 1700s right before french revolution. The French monarchs got access to this surveillance state we have.

    Do you think the revolution would’ve succeeded?

    I think they’d just massacre the revolutionaries with AI-powered drones.

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    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I was thinking of this scenario as dropping the Internet of the 1990s on a feudal system. If you used the Orwellian spy machine of the 2020s instead, it would probably get pretty dark, just as you said.

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• DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Isn’t it?

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ?

    Monarchism would kill your entire family for saying “Lol Emperor/King is ugly”

    Even with all the oppression of the modern world in mind, our current world is still much more tame in comparison.

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    • DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Kim Jon Un would do the same. And billionaires get away with abusing children, even though there is hard evidence against them. That doesn’t seem like much progress to me in 400 years. Call it what you will, but the balance of power hasn’t really changed all that much.

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