After conspiring with the most malign influence in democracy in the English-speaking world, named Murdoch, the country is now considering licensing social-media users and eliminating anonymity. So wrong. WTF is going on down there, Australia?
https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS/status/1377704934293057541
When I cry "moral panic" about media & government treatment of the internet, this is what I fear. I don't care about FB, Google, et al; they take care of themselves. I fear efforts by vestigial power-elites to control or eliminate the freedoms the net brings to the rest of us.
Media and government want to control speech on the net--directly & by attacking tech companies--because the voices of the people challenge the legacy institutions these self-declared elites still control. This is a moral panic of their invention.
Ah, but you say: isn't public trust in tech falling? Yes, after four years of moral-panic bombardment by media against tech. See @DrTechlash's book, which pinpoints the pivot. books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Th…
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