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"Earlier this year, I was a part of a
CNN documentary,
Twitter: Breaking the
Bird, which gave me much pause for reflection about the state of social media
and how we got here. This year alone we’ve witnessed an unprecedented wave of
disruption across these platforms.
Government workers, locked out of their jobs, struggled to organize securely.
Protestors, seeking to plan No Kings marches, wondered which app could be the
most trusted. Inbound international travelers have been deleting their social
apps for fear that immigration officers will search their phones. And during
major disasters, like the tragic Texas floods and the LA fires, emergency
responders and volunteers find their critical updates buried by algorithms that
prioritize engagement over urgency. On a daily basis, countless online
communities face arbitrary deplatforming, surveillance, and loss of their
digital spaces without recourse or explanation.
These aren’t isolated incidents: they’re symptoms of a fundamental crisis in
how we’ve allowed our digital communities to be governed. We’ve unwittingly
accepted a system where massive corporations control the public sphere;
algorithms optimize for advertising revenue rather than human connection, and
we the people have no real agency over our digital existence."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
