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China Got Our Kids Hooked on ‘Digital Fentanyl’

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17 pointssethbannon5 comments

The "digital fentanyl" implies that the addiction is the problem, which may be. As a headline, it's totally misleading relative to the topic discussed. The phrase is attributed to an FCC commissioner, which isn't suprising as the FCC is so frequently consumer-unfriendly.

Assuming that "we" here is not China and therefore "them" is China, we are simply very upset that we didn't get our kids hooked on digital fentanyl first. Especially Facebook and Snap are unhappy. Economically, of course, we'd rather retain the profits from the ad market, but that's globalization for ya.

Our own three-letter agencies such as CBP trawl the data sets our own companies sell, as well as have access to behind the scenes when needed.

What makes anyone think that the CCP doesn't just purchase all the information that our data brokers collect anyway?

That they would shape what content we see, well, they may have our interests less in their hearts than does Facebook, but we haven't seen Facebook have our interest in their hearts either.

I can't agree. The 3LA have some benefit to us (US citizens anyway), CCP has no use other than nefarious purposes. TikTok is just an extension of the CCP hoovering up data on Americans. Maybe 99.9% of that is just garbage data, but it doesn't take much data about politicians or other influential persons with a lot of power to be detrimental to a society. Digital fentanyl is a perfect title as it captures the potential deadliness, addictive properties, and potential threat, so it's actually a great title. Being that this particular social media is from an adversarial state, we should kill it off immediately. They had their chance to sever ties with china and become an American corp (or European) but they failed to do, now it's time to lower the boom on them.

I used to think American barbarian culture made us fat and unhealthy until I realised one day: Red Bull is Austrian.

Capitalism doesn't have flags, creeds or nations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DSdw7dHjs is as relevant as ever

> Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state? Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.

And real Fentanyl.

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