Post #4054715
2026-07-24 05:15 UTC
They are something like the telescreens of Orwell's 1984, with the computer or smartphone or laptop supplying the actual screen and microphone and camera. Through #Twitter and #BlueSky and #YouTube and all the other corporate social media pours a constant stream of propaganda.
Facts and figures are popular in Oceania and so it is with Twitter and all other U.S. #media terminally obsessed with regarding statistics (almost always used fraudulently) and polling results and official government figures as intrinsically newsworthy and requiring no real analysis or criticism.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 05:17
And just as with the telescreens, sometimes the corporate #Internet will address itself to the end user directly, and of course it's always listening and collecting every last possible scrap of personal information, secretively and without the user's consent. The #tech barons openly sneer at the premise that they've a duty to honor the common public's privacy. They regard their invasions of privacy as fait accompli and also voluntary on the users' part. Only those of low IQ, say the geeklords, could possibly even expect privacy on the Internet. (cont'd)