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motherzuckeron Nicholas Carr on how to fix social media

>What kind of argument is that?

An argument based on human history and the progress of human rights?

>They spread lies which cost lives.

Precisely the same argument used time and time again against the thought leaders of human rights.

motherzuckeron Nicholas Carr on how to fix social media

>When did Facebook and twitter become the authorities?

When they became defacto owners of the largest modern day town square where the majority of political speech is conducted?

motherzuckeron Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%

Would be interesting to see how that data compares with other diseases. For instance heart disease, which is largely preventable and kills more people

motherzuckeron As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show

"In contemporary America, children must be trained to insatiable consumption of impulsive choice and infinite variety...So it is with the child versus the gross national product: what individual child is more important than the gross national product?"[1]

FB is the pinnacle of advertising.

Without advertising, American society could not social engineer insatiable consumerism, and therefore could not achieve infinite growth.

Big Ads is what keep the Ponzi scheme from collapsing.

[1]Culture Against Man, Chapter 3: Advertising as a Philosophical System, by Jules Henry (1963)