EU absolutely is a country.
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For-profit social media, certainly. I don’t trust it anymore. Astroturfing, data-harvesting, I feel like they’re all made to fuck us over in some way.
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Yes. Current oligarch-owned USA considers Europe an enemy because of its liberal and leftist values. Look how they’ve already turned us, famously allergic to fascism, towards fascism once again.
We can’t rely on enemy services in a cold war. We can’t review closed-source code to be free from back doors for spying and sabotage, or black-box feed shaping algorithms to not have bias and shadow-censorship for mass manipulation.
EU must ban all US-made smart products for its own safety. All closed-source software and electronics that can be used for strategic manipulation and sabotage – Google, Apple, Amazon, all of it.
They are in every European citizen’s pockets, desktops, and server rooms. They know way too much about us, and have every opportunity to manipulate us:
- Make the most intelligent people never stumble upon important information on search engines and social media.
- Make the most compatible people never meet each other on dating sites.
- Make the most valuable people never find career-making jobs on work-centered social media.
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Black box recommendation algorithms in the control of one country enables the slow, strategic destruction of Europe by trillions of unnoticeable manipulations. CIA has done this shit before, and now it’s being given more power than ever to do so.
China banned that shit, and China has been successful partly for its detachment from US far-right propaganda. They have also made subtle mass-manipulation difficult by making their own services.
We have functional, clunky open-source software that could easily be fitted for any purpose with the money we waste propping up foreign monopolies sabotaging us. Europe has taken a huge risk. I suspect bribery.
No. And I would continue helping people evade whatever censorship a government tries to impose on them.
Not censoring content, just banning the giant-corp black-box feed shaping algorithms pushing fascist propaganda.
I’m way too familiar with liberals labeling everything they don’t like as “fascist propaganda” :)
So, still no.
Based
Yes.
Please tell me what I’d lose if you turned off X, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit.
“I’ve got mine, fuck off”
No. But a ban on algorithms would be nice.
Allow me to take some worry away: Pornhub is canadian.
Oh yes! Build Lemmy entirely from one line of lambda calculus.
While we’re at it, the vegans can stop consuming inorganic chemicals.
;-)
I hate how in common parlance “algorithm” has become synonymous with “recommender system”, when it’s so much more basic of a concept. But whenever I used to gripe about it, or inform people of the more specific terminology back on reddit I was downvoted. So thanks to you for bringing it up first.
I don’t know, but I really would like to see country specific social media.
Do you want nationalism? Because that seems like a good way to get it.
It gets better when the nationalism gets to the socialist part
Absolutely not. I’ll rather choose for myself which content I consume than have the government choose it for me.
Based.
And freepilled
You might be interested in this piece from a government funded Australian think tank about escaping the current social media environment
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/social-media-as-it-should-be/
Only on Lemmy folks , people who complain about their freedoms being taken out, media censorship against their ideology and living in a LITERAL dictatorship since Trump took power, who claim to advocate for freedom of speech and information
That very same people actively demanding for information shared on social networks to be controlled, networks to be shutdown and people to be censored based on unknown and ambiguous criteria, without even understanding the implications of it.
Details at six
And for your question? No. People is free to choose what to think, listen, say or read. Fucking fascists
