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I say this from a realpolitik perspective. This was clearly the obvious outcome.
The site's creation is understandable when considering how destabilizing social media has been. Just look at how the US has changed from 2008 to now. Here's a particularly relevant quote from the article: "Every social media [platform] has to be responsible, to a certain extent, of what they bring into a country because it defines a lot of things in the country, like youth culture or how citizens of a country react t…
The site's creation is understandable when considering how destabilizing social media has been. Just look at how the US has changed from 2008 to now. Here's a particularly relevant quote from the article: "Every social media [platform] has to be responsible, to a certain extent, of what they bring into a country because it defines a lot of things in the country, like youth culture or how citizens of a country react t…
"instructed their followers to leave Western social networks for Koo, a local, free-speech platform." This is a funny turn of phrase given that it sounds like a lot of people are leaving twitter for Koo because twitter isn't doing enough banning to suit them.
Recent banning of Trump, Parler and Australian news from Facebook invigorated their drive.
I grew up in India - nationalism is definitely a growing concern for the country IMO, more so than can be expressed online by articles such as this. And nationalism definitely has a huge overlap with hinduism in the country. Creating siloed media platforms that lets such ideas fester and grow is probably the worst thing that can happen. The thing is that even gently challenging these ideas (with some folks I know bac…
Why does 'nationalism' concern you. Is 'nationalism' always or almost always negative?
I grew up in India - nationalism is definitely a growing concern for the country IMO, more so than can be expressed online by articles such as this. And nationalism definitely has a huge overlap with hinduism in the country. Creating siloed media platforms that lets such ideas fester and grow is probably the worst thing that can happen. The thing is that even gently challenging these ideas (with some folks I know bac…
Why does 'nationalism' concern you. Is 'nationalism' always or almost always negative?
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/how-fasc...
My take away was fascists gain compliance by nationalism above anything including basic human rights.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why does 'nationalism' concern you. Is 'nationalism' always or almost always negative?
Nationalism is always negative to me because I define it as blind allegiance to a tribe who you don't hold accountable.
The actions of Twitter regarding the last election have almost certainly guaranteed the rise of foreign social media sites. If they have no qualms restricting the speech of the president of America, clearly they’ll have no issue manipulating other governments. American social media sites really have no one to blame but themselves. I say this from a realpolitik perspective. This was clearly the obvious outcome.
This resonated with me: >What we are seeing is that India wants to be more self-reliant. India includes everybody. Our app doesn’t understand “left” or “right.” I don’t understand “left” or “right.” I’m an entrepreneur; I’m extremely apolitical. And I’m all for the development of the country. If Koo as a statement can make us self-reliant on our own social networks and technology, then we should be cheering for it. W…
That could happen with this site too. A site's culture is determined by a complicated combination of engineering decisions, moderation decisions, and the behavior of its users.