Comment on If social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse.
Why though? I think the Arab spring says otherwise.
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.
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.
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.
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.