The Erosion of Democracy Is Your Fault
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The Erosion of Democracy Is Your Fault
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#2I don't use WhatsApp, I always thought it sounded like some flimsy "what's the current popular app"-app, so well..
That said, they're a private company, people still have a free choice whether to use them or not, use another communications platform if you're unhappy with their terms of service.
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#3I don't use WhatsApp, I always thought it sounded like some flimsy "what's the current popular app"-app, so well.. That said, they're a private company, people still have a free choice whether to use them or not, use another communications platform if you're unhappy with their terms of service.
Understand they can do whatever the hell they like as you say. But I think the problem is in a way they're blackmailing their users. They're leveraging the fact that people are very unlikely to switch messaging platforms that they've invested in building a network in. It plays on our deepest instincts as social animals. No one wants to self exile themselves from their friendship group. Leveraging this instinct to grow your business is evil in my mind.
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#4I don't use WhatsApp, I always thought it sounded like some flimsy "what's the current popular app"-app, so well.. That said, they're a private company, people still have a free choice whether to use them or not, use another communications platform if you're unhappy with their terms of service.
Understand they can do whatever the hell they like as you say. But I think the problem is in a way they're blackmailing their users. They're leveraging the fact that people are very unlikely to switch messaging platforms that they've invested in building a network in. It plays on our deepest instincts as social animals. No one wants to self exile themselves from their friendship group. Leveraging this instinct to gro…
When I say evil I mean morally wrong.
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#5this article is cringey. author is a ceo of a privacy company who likely benefits from whatsapp (not defending it...) loosing trust publicly. he also lives in the UK and is lecturing folks about American politics.
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#6What does "passively supporting" mean, really?
Also, if you are using social media that (hypothetically, I'm not checking my facts here, just wondering aloud), contributed to color revolutions in the Middle East and in Ukraine, as well as to mass protests in Belarus and in Washington, then what is it that you are passively supporting?
(disclaimer: I've never used whatsapp, so just idly curious about the rhetoric)
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#7Correlation 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.
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#8What does "passively supporting" mean, really? Also, if you are using social media that (hypothetically, I'm not checking my facts here, just wondering aloud), contributed to color revolutions in the Middle East and in Ukraine, as well as to mass protests in Belarus and in Washington, then what is it that you are passively supporting? (disclaimer: I've never used whatsapp, so just idly curious about the rhetoric)
>What does "passively supporting" mean, really?
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