Populist has a derogatory connotation and insulting peoples will seems improper
How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
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Re: How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
#12How is this any different from the Arab Spring? Why should this be silenced while the Arab Spring had to amplified?
It's not. This is a phenomenon that'll probably keep going as long as we have pervasive social networks.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22451908-the-revolt-of-t...
Re: How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
#13Damned if they do, damned if they don't. Personally, I feel that a lot of this hate towards Facebook is done by media types who are jealous that Facebook has stolen their role as a place to find news, no matter if it's fake or real.
Re: How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
#14How the Legacy Media is fueling discontent toward competing sources of information.
How government officials are panicked over losing control of narratives.
Please trust us Plebes. we'll give you the information you need.
Re: How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
#15Populist has a derogatory connotation and insulting peoples will seems improper
> Populist has a derogatory connotation
For a very good reason.
> insulting peoples will seems improper
It does seem improper, but drawing the connection between calling out people drawn to populism and insulting them is one of the least discrete attempts at muddying the waters I've seen recently.
Re: How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
#16I don't like Facebook more than anyone else, but at this point aren't we just blaming them for enabling communication?
By all means, criticize Facebook for privacy issues, but not for stuff like this, unless you actually want censorship on the largest scale ever in history.
Re: How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
#17Damned if they do, damned if they don't. Personally, I feel that a lot of this hate towards Facebook is done by media types who are jealous that Facebook has stolen their role as a place to find news, no matter if it's fake or real.
Yeah, as much as I dislike Facebook, at this point I'm kind of concerned about how much bad press is coming out about one company.
Most other tech companies (especially the ones still in the "hustling" phase) are just as bad as FB if not worse. It's starting to feel like a coordinated smear campaign, even if all of it is accurate.
Re: How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
#18How is this any different from the Arab Spring? Why should this be silenced while the Arab Spring had to amplified?
Because the protests against the democratically elected leadership during the Arab spring... Oh wait. You may hate something equally under any regime but there's a huge difference when that something is done in a democracy versus basically any other common form or government. In democracies issues can be (are?) solved at the election booth. Not so much in a dictatorship, a monarchy, or any "pseudo-democracy" (see Chi…
How do you feel about the US riots held for equal protection and rights from the cops? Morally inferior and less deserving of access to social media than the Muslim Brotherhood led riots overthrowing the Egyptian government and installing a (short lived) theocracy?
Re: How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
#19Populist has a derogatory connotation and insulting peoples will seems improper
> Populist has a derogatory connotation For a very good reason. > insulting peoples will seems improper It does seem improper, but drawing the connection between calling out people drawn to populism and insulting them is one of the least discrete attempts at muddying the waters I've seen recently.
What is that reason? Why should people not advocate for their own interest?
Re: How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage
#20I don't like Facebook more than anyone else, but at this point aren't we just blaming them for enabling communication? By all means, criticize Facebook for privacy issues, but not for stuff like this, unless you actually want censorship on the largest scale ever in history.
It's not just plain communication. Facebook controls what you see and their algorithms encourage rage because it gets users engaged.