"This digital feudalism is cloaked in the language of care and safety. The owners of these walled gardens insist that they are benevolent patriarchs who have built fortresses to defend us from external threats, but inevitably they are revealed as warlords who have built prisons to keep us from escaping from them"
"When switching costs are high, services can be changed in ways that you dislike without losing your business. The higher the switching costs, the more a company can abuse you, because it knows that as bad as they’ve made things for you, you’d have to endure worse if you left" < Good post on social quitting and network effects by Cory Doctorow @pluralistichttps://doctorow.medium.com/social-quitting-1ce85b67b456 #network #twitterdown #twittermigration #socialmedia
As I type these words, there is a mass exodus underway from Twitter and Facebook. After decades of eye-popping growth, these social media sites are contracting at an alarming rate. In some ways, this…
«A new report from Amnesty International this week dives deeply into the #Facebook-fueled atrocities perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslim minority by Myanmar security forces. [...] Assessing Meta’s contribution to the #genocide — which Amnesty concludes was substantial — the report finds that Facebook’s “content-shaping algorithms” directly fueled killings and other abuses. Meanwhile, the company profited off the swell of divisive, hateful content that aided Myanmar’s government in laying the groundwork for a military-led ethnic cleansing campaign.»
