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Actually, Ivan … I'd say banning ordinary citizens from social media is more problematic than banning someone as powerful as Donald Trump. He'll find alternative means of propagating his message. Will the average citizen, though?
Having said that, I'm quite vehemently against governments using social media as a way of addressing the population – so I'm not going to pretend I'm particularly miffed. It's our own bloody fault.
Hundreds of millions of ordinary citizens gave big data control over their lives and political discourse itself; and let's not kid ourselves: The regulation necessary to make big data respect free speech was torpedoed by both sides of the aisle. No one wanted to catch that hot potato; this is the result.
At any rate … I'll never understand how so many people manage to be paranoid about their governments while selling their entire privacy and even their thoughts to big data.
I've seen a little bit from the inside of how my government works and quite frankly – at least for the time being – I deem uncontrolled private corporations motivated by profit a much bigger threat to my freedom than overworked and understaffed agencies neutered by watchdogs and ombudsmen.
Having said that, I'm quite vehemently against governments using social media as a way of addressing the population – so I'm not going to pretend I'm particularly miffed. It's our own bloody fault.
Hundreds of millions of ordinary citizens gave big data control over their lives and political discourse itself; and let's not kid ourselves: The regulation necessary to make big data respect free speech was torpedoed by both sides of the aisle. No one wanted to catch that hot potato; this is the result.
At any rate … I'll never understand how so many people manage to be paranoid about their governments while selling their entire privacy and even their thoughts to big data.
I've seen a little bit from the inside of how my government works and quite frankly – at least for the time being – I deem uncontrolled private corporations motivated by profit a much bigger threat to my freedom than overworked and understaffed agencies neutered by watchdogs and ombudsmen.