Comment on We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why

• bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  FOIA is great and all, and so are public records laws and disclosure laws.

  But the state is gonna state, and when push comes to shove, social media will be another tool to manufacture consent, break up movements, and preserve itself over the interest of the governed.

  I’m not concerned about the ability to FOIA shit about Twitter or Facebook’s algorithm, as much as I’d like to know about how it targets the content slop to its users. I’m concerned about how it will consolidate power into fewer hands, and how state sponsored social media will be abused. And I don’t think FOIA would ever reveal that if it happened.

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    social media will be another tool to manufacture consent, break up movements, and preserve itself over the interest of the governed.

    it already is that, or did you miss the stories about Biden administration officials meeting with Facebook, TikTok etc about “content moderation”?

    hint: moderation is different from censorship

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