what makes living within a peer-to-peer mass surveillance society difficult is that the rules and norms we are expected to follow are constantly changing. What is permitted today, may not be tomorrow, and so even past actions can be the seeds of a future downfall.
The rules, norms, and values we are expected to follow are not an emergent and spontaneous by-product of the interactions of social media users, but are being shaped to align with the interests of certain corporations, governments and other powerful global institutions.
By manipulating what we see and what we don’t see, and the frequency with which we see things, tech companies can effectively influence what we believe and what we value.
The more time we spend glued to our screens, scrolling through these manipulated and censored social media feeds, the more we run the risk of becoming mere automatons serving the interests of a small group of elitists whose ultimate goal is to control and exploit us.
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