At the WEF, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez calls for the end of anonymity on social media by forcing them to link all user accounts with the European digital identity wallet.
Then the state acquires the ability to spy on all your communications, and when the state is taken over by bad actors (as now), they can use that to blackmail, bully or worse.
And they will spy on us, at some point, if this were to be allowed to pass. Not a question of “if” the government will abuse it, but “which” government will abuse it.
Do we allow private enterprise total control over social media who then use their control to flood society with their propaganda use their power to blackmail, control, bully or worse.
OR
Do we allow government agencies total control over social media who then use their control to flood society with their propaganda use their power to blackmail, control, bully or worse.
At least with the publicly controlled government option, we would all have some measure of control or regulation. It would take a lot more organization and complication for bad actors to manipulate the message because they first have to take control of government.
Leaving control of social media in private hands means we’ve already given up control because bad actors can just buy whatever message they want and push it to everyone. Their message and manipulation guides everyone to the government they want. Bad actors win because they have control of social media and can win control of government.
The game is already set. We want to argue that the government shouldn’t have control of these things because we don’t/won’t/can’t trust government … but we are more than willing to put our trust in private for profit corporations.
Then the state acquires the ability to spy on all your communications, and when the state is taken over by bad actors (as now), they can use that to blackmail, bully or worse.
And they will spy on us, at some point, if this were to be allowed to pass. Not a question of “if” the government will abuse it, but “which” government will abuse it.
Do we allow private enterprise total control over social media who then use their control to flood society with their propaganda use their power to blackmail, control, bully or worse.
OR
Do we allow government agencies total control over social media who then use their control to flood society with their propaganda use their power to blackmail, control, bully or worse.
At least with the publicly controlled government option, we would all have some measure of control or regulation. It would take a lot more organization and complication for bad actors to manipulate the message because they first have to take control of government.
Leaving control of social media in private hands means we’ve already given up control because bad actors can just buy whatever message they want and push it to everyone. Their message and manipulation guides everyone to the government they want. Bad actors win because they have control of social media and can win control of government.
The game is already set. We want to argue that the government shouldn’t have control of these things because we don’t/won’t/can’t trust government … but we are more than willing to put our trust in private for profit corporations.