It will eventually be a matter of life and death. We can’t wait to respond until then.
Activists imploring people not to watch YouTube and whatnot in 2020, should work just about as well as activists imploring people not to watch MTV and play Doom worked in the 90's. I predict we'll basically have to wait until something better comes along to unseat the incumbents.
That said, it's also highly likely that whatever unseats the incumbents will have all the drawbacks activists didn't like about the incumbents. Just as CoD or Modern Warfare still gets blamed for school shootings today, Doom was blamed in the 90s. Just as MTV was blamed for making society less intelligent in the 90's, Twitter is blamed for the same today.
My suspicion is that whatever replaces Twitter or Youtube will be just as censor-able, (maybe even moreso with builtin tracking and tracing). It'll just have much more content on it, and that content will be prettier. I'm thinking in the digital information age, it's impossible to go backwards to privacy and freedom.
Different strategies will need to be pursued. Like surging information you don't want censored. Or having your devices generate believably fake access trails for trackers and tracers to follow.
I don't believe either of those are illegal in the US yet? Could be wrong though?
I was talking with my mother last week and she had never heard of bitcoin.
She is on facebook literally all day but had not even heard the word bitcoin before.
She is just clueless. She wouldn't even begin to be able to understand this debate.
Even so, that's a totally LMGTFY thing, no?
But it's really not a difficult concept. Just ask someone their position on some contentious issue. And then ask them how they'd react to being blocked from posting about that on Facebook or whatever.
But yes, cutting greenhouse gas emissions would also be prudent.