Melvin Mildew wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2019 5:42 pm
containercore wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2019 1:21 pm
That's creepy, man. The google-ocracy is some scary shit.
That reminds me of when that child bride was sold on the facebook marketplace in like south Sudan
it's not illegal in south Sudan.
Those type of marketplaces existed before facebook; facebook simply decided to throw their hat into the ring and allow the same regionally. Twitter, for example, has a global platform policy, but regional enforcement offices that vary widely in interpretation. Case-in-point: the Arabic Twitter offices turn a blind eye to blatant antisemitism because all the people who work there are also largely Muslim and antisemitic themselves...
We are in a weird reality where we are stuck applying legacy rules based on borders and lines in the sand to what is essentially a global system of interpersonal exchange that circumvent those sorts of borders in the first place. I can report Radical Jihadists in the Middle East all day long, but very little will happen because the entity that is local to them doesn't care, while in the US even a vague hint of appreciation for the cultural history of southern American culture will get you hunted down and personally harassed by SJW's regardless of intent, political association, or ancillary beliefs. In many ways, it is astounding how international corporations have become power brokers between competing foreign ideological interests and pawns in a century old game despite being the very entities that promised to break down and destroy the old world as we know it.
If that isn't cyberpunk, I don't know what is. Literal mind control at this point. perhaps power really does emanate from the barrel of a gun, despite all...