Your point is valid, however the bigger issue that you and likely most everyone else are not getting us precisely “Facebook's dominance” and the absolutely, classical abusive relationship the whole of society has gotten itself into with the dependence Facebook and others have created.
There are frequently discussions here about how to address the particular abusive characteristics of one of the tech companies or sector with what I believe are solutions that are too high level. It is the authoritarian, centralized planning, communist mentality that current tech for some reason devolved into that is the problem, I don’t see how more specific planning is the solution. How many more authoritarian utopias have to end in misery before we stop letting abusive people ruin things and cause misery?
What we need is what the government should only ever be doing s as it relates to this is, ensuring competition, which is done by imposing standards that prevent capture and lock-in. Yes, that is a tall order once the government is as corrupted and captured by the very corporations and sectors that are so abusive, however I believe the only way that can be addressed is precisely by pushing for keystone legislation that requires the whole industry to self organize specifications and standards and protocols that allow the seamless communications and transportation of data between systems and services, and makes all data and content the property of the creator, without extensive and burdensome regulatory requirements to transfer that ownership. We must end digital slavery!
All these issues are actually rather easy to understand once one has been able to remove oneself from the toxic and abusive relationship that effectively the whole tech sector employs with its users. It’s all there, textbook abusive relationships 101.
I would map all the common characteristics of abusive relationships to the behaviors of tech companies (or most companies theses days), but I think I’ll keep it shortish, even though I guess it may be helpful to see, for people who cannot see the abusive relationship of the tech sector because they’re in the abuse.
Just one example that is relevant to your point; controlling access to loved ones … “you’re nothing without Facebook, now obey Facebook and how Facebook wants you to speak, think, act, and even dress. I wouldn’t need to control your speak and hurt you if you would just obey Facebook”. And of course many of the Battered Wife Syndrome sufferers rationalize with all kinds of things like “Facebook only beats me (controls speech and behavior, depersons, shadow bans, etc) because I misbehave and think wrong things, and it knows better what’s good for us all” on the left or “well, it’s a private company and they can do whatever they want to me because if I want to eat (be part of society ) I have to obey because my data and access to communications is a slave that is private property”
There are frequently discussions here about how to address the particular abusive characteristics of one of the tech companies or sector with what I believe are solutions that are too high level. It is the authoritarian, centralized planning, communist mentality that current tech for some reason devolved into that is the problem, I don’t see how more specific planning is the solution. How many more authoritarian utopias have to end in misery before we stop letting abusive people ruin things and cause misery?
What we need is what the government should only ever be doing s as it relates to this is, ensuring competition, which is done by imposing standards that prevent capture and lock-in. Yes, that is a tall order once the government is as corrupted and captured by the very corporations and sectors that are so abusive, however I believe the only way that can be addressed is precisely by pushing for keystone legislation that requires the whole industry to self organize specifications and standards and protocols that allow the seamless communications and transportation of data between systems and services, and makes all data and content the property of the creator, without extensive and burdensome regulatory requirements to transfer that ownership. We must end digital slavery!
All these issues are actually rather easy to understand once one has been able to remove oneself from the toxic and abusive relationship that effectively the whole tech sector employs with its users. It’s all there, textbook abusive relationships 101.
I would map all the common characteristics of abusive relationships to the behaviors of tech companies (or most companies theses days), but I think I’ll keep it shortish, even though I guess it may be helpful to see, for people who cannot see the abusive relationship of the tech sector because they’re in the abuse.
Just one example that is relevant to your point; controlling access to loved ones … “you’re nothing without Facebook, now obey Facebook and how Facebook wants you to speak, think, act, and even dress. I wouldn’t need to control your speak and hurt you if you would just obey Facebook”. And of course many of the Battered Wife Syndrome sufferers rationalize with all kinds of things like “Facebook only beats me (controls speech and behavior, depersons, shadow bans, etc) because I misbehave and think wrong things, and it knows better what’s good for us all” on the left or “well, it’s a private company and they can do whatever they want to me because if I want to eat (be part of society ) I have to obey because my data and access to communications is a slave that is private property”
Let’s end digital slavery, can we please!