Il giorno mer 21 giu 2017 alle 16:47, Daniel Pocock daniel@pocock.pro ha scritto:
- systems like facebook are made by the establishment, for the
establishment. Zuckerberg is a regular at Bilderberg these days. This brings me to the age old question: can you change the system by using the rules the system gives you? People like the Bolsheviks and Gandhi didn't exactly think so.
This reminds me a recent discussion I had with a quite popular blogger here in Italy. He wrote a blog post complaining that Youtube automatic filters put his video under "restricted mode"¹. The video is about a "controverse" and hot topic in Italy in the last months, but the content itself is far from being dangerous or controversial at all.
I commented that we cannot expect real free speech in a walled garden and these events should encourage video bloggers to start using alternative platforms. He replied that there's no big audience in alternative platforms, so he cannot migrate until an alternative platform reaches the "critical mass". Well, true but nothing will change if everyone, especially opinion leaders, adopts this mindset. It's a complicated matter.
¹ https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/174084?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop...