@@Meredith Whittaker is correct, the left does need to pay attention to free speech and the increasing concentration of power of platform social media.
“The problem here is the platforms themselves. There is something deeply wrong with the whole form. With their self-reinforcing business models, their reliance on surveillance, and their role in undermining an independent media ecosystem and replacing it with their monolithic feeds. “
“The right is fighting to take control of these platforms, while liberals and some on the left are fighting to expand vectors of platform control, without thinking hard enough about who will wield this power and who is likely to get hurt.”
LPE Project
Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is
Before we move to further concentrate global surveillance and propaganda power in the hands of the United States, we should be clear-eyed about the...
