Thread by @BesDMarx

it's rly tragic how powerless we are in the face of big platforms like twitter or facebook. our voices are not safe, their algorithms and decisions are barely transparent. they say twitter is not real life, but big tech is a real, and very underrated danger to society

but of course it is not big tech per se that is the source of these problems, it's a symptom. the real cause is accumulation of wealth & power in fewer hands. it's not technology that is the problem, it's power. who owns and controls the technology?

another important fact is the large transformation of capitalism towards an IT driven economy, software is eating the world, data is the new core resource. it's less important who controls the means of production, it's more and more about the control of the means of distribution

by dominating the means of distribution, capitalists can leverage their power to control production. for example, amazon is the world's most valuable listed company because they control the platform; they have high power regarding which producers get to sell on their platform

this is the same for other tech giants: facebook, google (with youtube, adsense, etc.), microsoft, apple, or twitter. as distribution, IT, & data get more important, big tech will have a larger control not just over our labor, but our whole lives.

not only is power getting more concentrated through the rise of platform capitalism economically, through the control of the supply chain, but it's also creating & expanding a system of unprecedented surveillance. they know everything abt you, you know nothing abt them.

the problem is not the technology, it is the structure of ownership. platforms need to be democratically owned; imagine a dynamic world economy based on intelligent, transparent, and ethical algorithms, enabling planning without any bureaucracy, highly adaptable to our needs

if you are interested in such a vision, i invite you to check out my project: @ZER0_App, i'm still developing it, but feel free to follow to receive updates on the launch. it is a user-owned social media platform. the end goal to make it a democratic tech platform. check it out❤️

also, if you are interested in participating, or helping me develop it sometime in the near future, let me know :)