The internet is a cesspool of misinformation, and the biggest blue-chip brands and their ad agencies are the ones funding it—by stuffing money into a Rube Goldberg machine no one really understands.
The best solution against HIV is not to use protection - it’s to avoid brothels and strangers.
Just like with governments - the best solution against corruption is not oversight, it’s to remove the particular area from governmental management.
If you don’t need anything from some interaction - don’t interact.
Which is why the modern Web, the social media, the fashion tech toy crap, the “AI”, the cryptoscams, … - these are all things that can’t stand. They don’t intend to frankly, just like with Ponzi schemes, the goal is to run very fast until you can’t. What’s the profit in it - the profit is in one-time theft, or one-time murder, or anything else like that. While it lasts, misinformation and censorship and oppression get an easy time. It will end, but the harm will be done and the profits reaped.
EDIT: Which is very close to the “business plan” of NSDAP frankly - a few one-time big scams to fund rearmament of Germany, then a few mass thefts from Jews and whoever else, then a few invasions … at some point they couldn’t keep going this way, though.
Of course.
The best solution against HIV is not to use protection - it’s to avoid brothels and strangers.
Just like with governments - the best solution against corruption is not oversight, it’s to remove the particular area from governmental management.
If you don’t need anything from some interaction - don’t interact.
Which is why the modern Web, the social media, the fashion tech toy crap, the “AI”, the cryptoscams, … - these are all things that can’t stand. They don’t intend to frankly, just like with Ponzi schemes, the goal is to run very fast until you can’t. What’s the profit in it - the profit is in one-time theft, or one-time murder, or anything else like that. While it lasts, misinformation and censorship and oppression get an easy time. It will end, but the harm will be done and the profits reaped.
EDIT: Which is very close to the “business plan” of NSDAP frankly - a few one-time big scams to fund rearmament of Germany, then a few mass thefts from Jews and whoever else, then a few invasions … at some point they couldn’t keep going this way, though.
Ah yes the freedom to just not interact with endless propaganda. Solid plan. Easy as curing HIV… jfc.
I don’t watch TV and mostly don’t use Facebook. Not reading TG news is an unending battle. Not participating in discussions on Lemmy - eh.
Didn’t mean it’s easy, just that when you can cut something off completely, it’s better than filtering the stream of shit coming your way.
Or in other words - you don’t owe anybody to keep some windows open.