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KW NORTON's avatar

Thanks. The serial abuse meted out by all social media companies is profound. Of course we are being exploited for our most human characteristics. It’s pretty clear what’s happening. Important to remember SS is one also. Here is the kind of stuff SS promotes:

https://jessica.substack.com/p/what-to-tell-our-daughters?r=boqs0&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Needless to say….!

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Stegiel's avatar

Indeed. Would you be astonished if they had consultants or backers in common? There ain't no such thing as a free lunch online. Altruism briefly flourished but once the WWW took over the BBS villages became towns and then countries like AOL and FB and Twitter. I believe every social post is read by A.I. perhaps owned by the NSA or a subcontractor like Google.

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KW NORTON's avatar

Yes. Maybe our job is to make this worth their efforts, lol. These psychopaths are driven by fear - fear of we the people. They objectify it as the “right” but it is us.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Still have that 60 second (or more) delay thing going here for comments.

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Stegiel's avatar

Funny ideas arise if your comments on other West Coast of El Norte Stacks are not slowed. Cannot begin to think why slowdowns. Though tangentially only this week did Substack restore email notifications. After De-Banning no mail notifications came just as during. I had to log in to read any notifications from anyone posting on Substack. Then they returned with a communication that if I wanted to turn them off I could.

Then not related I read in California the ID for logging online is coming in next two years to protect children from perverts. This may be full facial scan like the new IRS requirement for online service.

Our digital life already a Panopticon is verging on a Company Town for privileged and a Super Max prison for all others.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Computer screens as two way video devices. But one of the directions unstated.

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KW NORTON's avatar

All,the recent revelations about cops/governments turning on cell phone cameras to spy on citizens. These psychopaths are very, dry afraid of us. Perhaps we need to confirm their fears.

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Stegiel's avatar

Traffic cams etc. In a city not difficult to track in real time with cam. Nor really hard with a signal. States exist to manufacture slaves.

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KW NORTON's avatar

Not only in cities anymore - these are in place to control us everywhere.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Bots and trolls don't get included in the statistics of who watches TV or buys newspapers. Just saying.

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Stegiel's avatar

There is fakery in the stats. Though how much data massaging is required is an art known to Media Mavens.

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Richard Seager's avatar

I'm there for business although I'm so loathe to log on that I'm not sure there's a lot of point to it. Employees are pushing it to me right now though, we'll see. But I was a little too naive back in 2010. Should have opened up account under a pseudonym, lots do.

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