I remember that the prohibition actually increased alcohol consumption.
I am far more concerned about being monitored and influenced by a domestic government, because they have power where I live, and they can wreck my life anytime they want to.
It's odd that this happened - but I don't think it will have a big impact on anything.
Go look for the audio recording from the head of AIPAC COMPLAINING about public opinion against their war.
They want it silenced, as does Zuckerberg, Musk & Bezos for the latter Temu & TikTok have to have impacted sales).
According to Congress it is a national security threat. The Supreme Court unanimously agreed. And yet Trump may restart TikTok as is after he is inaugurated.
Check out all of the mentions of Palestine in the original thread though. This is interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42710339
Cambridge Analytics partnered with Meta to target elections around the world, bragged of using the data to install into office whoever paid them the most.
Americans, found in TikTok a place where they could learn about history, hobbies, comedy, and information about things NEVER taught in schools & being able to use it as a search engine instead of google to find people talking about what they wanted to find.
The world is already filled with propaganda from the US government, at the behest of corporations.
It is all out in the open.
As for monitoring? We have been monitored heavily and all our data is in the hands of the NSA, GCHQ, the Chinese government, the 5 eyes & every social media platform. There must have been thousands of data breaches with ALL. Of your financial data, your credit history, and more.
All governments use propaganda and have done evil by their citizens in the interests of power,control & wealth.
We are monitored by our devices with our internet traffic collected and sold.
We are tracked by TransUnion, Experian et al.
Our license plates are scanned on the roads, at shopping center, malls.
Google will send police lists of whose phones were in what area based on geofencing.
NSA was copying ALL inter data center traffic between all google data centers.
Our banks file SARS reports on deposits & withdrawals.
> Cambridge Analytics partnered with Meta to target elections around the world,
is that there was no coordinated effort. Rather, FB's early APIs were extremely permissive, as were many other social media apps trying to be platforms with 3rd-party developers building apps on them. CA exploited this permissivity to obtain a whole lot of PII.
we know with absolute certainty they have been/are actively being used for the same purposes—from both internal and external manipulations. i mean in addition to the mess from the past couple of years, does anyone else remember facebook getting caught intentionally running experiments on unknowing users? [0][1][2][3]
they were caught intentionally trying to manipulate humans into being sad. again, without the users knowledge (or consent) they were running experiments on people.
their owners are definitely manipulating humans, their algorithms are being manipulated by highly paid groups of people, and on and on.
if foreign ownership concerns you, twitter is not owned by someone born in the US, and it’s second largest shareholder are saudis. and the vc money people behind so many of these sites have repeatedly shown they have some very antisocial tendencies, and maybe this is hyperbolic, i can’t tell anymore, but im confident in saying an awful lot of them have no loyalty to any country/civilization and many of them would be perfectly happy to watch the world burn as long as they’re making money.
if manipulation concerns you (i’m still debating myself on the issue, but i’m leaning towards worry) i find it strange not to mention twitter and meta/facebook with just as much weight/concern. for the average american/european the manipulations coming from their platforms have the potential to be significantly more material. and they are rabidly against any kind of interference that would protect citizens from the very manipulations that seem to concern people.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke...
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/furor-erupts-over-facebook-expe...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...