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John's avatar

Yes this is exactly what is happening. I'll never forget the moment facebook went public and the insane value it attained on Wall Street. I remember exactly where I was. I remember grieving a future that had yet to be lost, and friendships that would soon go out with the tide. How do you explain to someone, anyone - a thing that you yourself have no words for. And when the words do come, they are too complex. They don't place well within the confines of a bumper sticker.

Social media giants have created a robust and hearty medium for international criminals to homestead - borders be damned. Civility, society, order... Poof.

Either we ban ourselves from these monopolized algorithmic chaos inducers, or we ban them. We need to sort it out before it sorts us out. Time to regulate.

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Deepspace's avatar

Sad but true, Congress can't/won't act responsibly until or if Democrats win more seats, especially, obviously, in the Senate ...BECAUSE OF THE FILIBUSTER! And they won't win any more seats until or if they can overcome all the misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information coming from all corners of Earth.

So, as always, the core of the problem are the fools who readily accept lies as truth. They're absolutely convinced it's all part of "God's Plan" somehow, even if they can't exactly explain what the plan is other than it must be followed to go to heaven.

So how do you convince someone they're following a "false god" when critical thinking skills in matters of "faith" are actively discouraged from the age of reason by parents and pastors?

Bingo -- right there! THAT deeply embedded pattern of thought is the number-one commodity for sale to the highest bidder, ideologically as well as monetarily.

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