Twitter recently decided to ban the President of Nigeria; Nigeria responded by banning Twitter.
Ironically Twitter responded by saying that “Access to the free and #OpenInternet is an essential human right in modern society.”
A similar thing is going on in India. Twitter has lost it shield from defamation laws, and it may be banned entirely.
This came after allegedly false and misleading tweets from so-called fact-checkers claimed that a Muslim man had been attacked by a Hindu mob as a result of religious violence.
They may be said to be resisting foreign-sourced Corporatism after a fashion … it’s just no one is sending in any military to say that they can’t resist.
Years ago there was this small motion sensitive sheep toy that we had in the store I helped manage and you could NOT even walk down the isle without it going off and start bleating. We hated it.
Social media where people spend their time friend farming is to my thinking kinda like a room full of those damn things and the bleating is where folks establish that they conform on a matter of interest, bleating like all the rest. Once one starts bleating the rest follow in waves. Seems like it would be really easy to manipulate.
Soon, stepping away from the literal toy here, patterns appear producing something like an intelligence, what people in the past might call a zeitgeist. These group minds have been studied.
I prefer anti-social media like discussion forums.
The weapons of today include AI-driven propaganda and state-dominated private entities that enforce compliance. From what I see Twitter is just a surrogate of the CIA and other elements of the surveillance state.
