It's crazy to realize that this beautiful new thing, the www: the information highway, access to knowledge for everyone, became the most powerful dumbing tool in less than 25 years since its creation.
I guess you dont necessarily mean to say this because of Telco's filtering content, or only whitelisting some content and services. In countries where filtering is not allowed and happening, I see a growing group of people who just believe whatever a group of people are shouting about, ie Fake news become Reality very quickly. This shows how stupid people are in fact. How little the mass question what they get served. That is what worries me the most. We want to be free and at the same time we simply follow those who shouts the loudest without questioning.
Anything I publish online I mean to say and want to express.
The internet was an amazing thing and well-meant and has been hijacked from us for malicious manipulation. Irrelevant whether by state operators, marketing crews, or tinfoil hats.
I fully stand behind that statement and I will fight until I die for everyone to understand how algos manipulate. This is a general issue not a country specific problem. The Netherlands get as dumbed down by FB as they got by Veronica TV.
Agree! Nice touch the reference with Veronica TV. Fact is: This is what the mass wants, since without the mass going for Veronica TV, all the shit shows now on TV, or mass adoption of FB, there would be no Veronica TV, shit shows, or FB. Therefore one can argue the case: Because of the mass wanting to be stupid, we have all these services; Not the other way around. Thats how I look at things. I meant to say: people want to be manipulated therefore we have services that manipulates people. Therefor we may need to blame people instead of the services itself :)
It's crazy to realize that this beautiful new thing, the www: the information highway, access to knowledge for everyone, became the most powerful dumbing tool in less than 25 years since its creation.
I guess you dont necessarily mean to say this because of Telco's filtering content, or only whitelisting some content and services. In countries where filtering is not allowed and happening, I see a growing group of people who just believe whatever a group of people are shouting about, ie Fake news become Reality very quickly. This shows how stupid people are in fact. How little the mass question what they get served. That is what worries me the most. We want to be free and at the same time we simply follow those who shouts the loudest without questioning.
Anything I publish online I mean to say and want to express.
The internet was an amazing thing and well-meant and has been hijacked from us for malicious manipulation. Irrelevant whether by state operators, marketing crews, or tinfoil hats.
I fully stand behind that statement and I will fight until I die for everyone to understand how algos manipulate. This is a general issue not a country specific problem. The Netherlands get as dumbed down by FB as they got by Veronica TV.
Fact.
Agree! Nice touch the reference with Veronica TV. Fact is: This is what the mass wants, since without the mass going for Veronica TV, all the shit shows now on TV, or mass adoption of FB, there would be no Veronica TV, shit shows, or FB. Therefore one can argue the case: Because of the mass wanting to be stupid, we have all these services; Not the other way around. Thats how I look at things. I meant to say: people want to be manipulated therefore we have services that manipulates people. Therefor we may need to blame people instead of the services itself :)