This editorial bs needs to cease.
Tiktok’s own Memo, that got leaked, confesses it’s algorithms were designed to kill children.

When you design a system of dependence, you silo the support group and interests of children: you keep them hostage to your platform.
YouTube was caught abusing children in it’s platform, so was Meta.

Don’t defend Fascists abusing Children for profit.

Here’s an alternative perspective, which is evidence-based, & you can test it daily:

Ideology is a kind of addiction.

See how it is addicted-to-reinforcement,

see how it disallows-falsification,

see how it prevents-objectivity,

see how it works/fights to OWN the life it is inhabiting,

see how it works/fights to disallow any release from being-owned-by-it.

Psychological-addictions are addictions, exactly as chemical-addictions are, because psychological-addictions are still addictions to brain-chemistry-habits, within one’s brain, and those are chemical-addictions, just self-generated, not externally-applied.

The gaslighting in that article…

Facebook used ideology-addiction to increase the genociding in … perhaps Indonesia, or Myanmar, or … somewhere in that region … getting genocide going, because it’d be more dominant in the resulting regime…

is that “addiction”??

Is that “harm”??

addiction is the most-profitable leverage to have in the customer.

Tobacco companies were found to have increased the freebase-nicotene in their crops, as a means of increasing addiction.

You think that AI-based addiction-increasing-algorithms which such platforms NEED to be running, in order to coerce as much compliance/exploitation as they can, from their prey, “isn’t” addiction??

Here’s a blunt tip: the same TV-execs who told the public “our ads don’t modify your behavior”, told the companies who were paying-for those ads “our ads definitely modify public behavior, & this amount of investment will produce this amoung of behavior-modification”.

Get the evidence not from what they’re saying to the public, get the evidence from what they’re telling the ones who profit from using the engineered-addictions.

People who take Putin’s & Netanyahu’s & Millei’s & Orban’s & Trump’s statements at face-value, while calling-into-question any contradiction, are not trustWORTHY.

Same for those who ignore the evidence of the machiavellianism of addiction-engineering softwares/platforms.

IF they’re demonstrably machiavellian, THEN they’ve already obliterated their default “right” to trust.

Consider the whole thing from that frame-of-reference, instead.

Gaslighters … there is HUGE pressure, nowadays, to softpedal facts, in order to retain employability in the future, for academics.

Criticize the big money? You’re no-longer employable.

THAT IS AFFECTING WHAT GETS PUBLISHED!

Too bad nobody’s got spine to be loyal to actual-journalism, anymore.

Addiction is a spectrum.

You know how supermarkets put impulse-purchase items right near the cash, so that when you’re all decision-fatigued-out, you’ll not be able to resist the worthless-junk purchases?

You know how that actually-works, well-enough that there’s solid money in not doing it otherwise??

THAT is evidence, not mere-belief.

The same is true in platform-“use” ( “use”, because it’s really the-platform-using-you, not the other-way-around ).

Go look at the permissions in your phone that the Facebook app has, & ask if there’s ANY moral justification for ALL that molestation-of-your-life to be going-on … & why it would be going-on … except to enforce to whatever degree it can addiction, among Facebook’s inmates…?

See it for what it is.

Addiction’s a spectrum, & it is enforced all it can be, by them.

That’s why they have to keep destroying internal-documents/evidence to prevent their conviction for such behavior: accountability won’t be tolerated, right?

Someday somebody’ll speak truth on the matter… just not in my lifetime.

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