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Perhaps a system where we let oligarchs who purchased media extremely specifically and explicitly for propaganda decide what we're all allowed to see in the news is a bad idea.

the problem is they can't. These apps and their devices are designed to be as addicting as possible to the young persons mind, and the average under 30 year old's brain has been trained since early development that it gets a dopamine fix every time it picks one up.

The ultimate digital paradox: using a gesture of descent to signal that the real value is actually below the fold. Weโ€™ve replaced the "Read More" button with a finger pointing toward the void.

Last week, when Ukraine bombed major russian data centers, russian global bot traffic crashed for a while. significant dip in X-twitter evil right-wing garbage.

First thing they need to do is dismantle all big corporations and suspend the ridiculous payments for CEOโ€™s without any accountability or consequences! Zuck can have his huge paycheck if we can jail him when a minor dies. Musk, his giant paycheck when heโ€™s responsible for all the death his car caus

The movieโ€™ll get a much wider viewership than before. This publicity is priceless. The info about Meta will bring on laws & regulations they certainly wonโ€™t like at all. Dems will pass them & the Rs will help them pass over presidential vetoes because THEY can get this treatment too if Zucky wants.

Everything you mentioned is true, but look back to his pre election rhetoric, no new wars, end the ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆwar within 24 hours, control inflation, dare I mention his Medicare package? Has this heartless fucker sent out any sympathy to the victims and families of the shooting in Bend, OR?

If so much of the Democratic Party establishment wasn't focused on fighting Bernie and the other progressives, we'd be living in a different world. It's a real shame we only have two viable parties.

Saw a bumper sticker yesterday "Bad things need to happen to people in power" Prison would be a good start. Then seizing assets to fund our programs as they should be. There's a whole list of things that need to be done and the Dem leaders need to understand this.

Reasons not to like Bernie; Heโ€™s supposed to tell us how heโ€™s fighting. What part of the government heโ€™ll shutdown to stop this oligarchy. These companies might be committing treason. They are likely violating their government contracts. Should we cancel our accounts? How do we fight Bernie?

And to every Republican citing government overreach, this is exactly why we had antitrust laws & regulations in place before you ignored them. To protect monopolistic corporations from doing societal harm. Whether itโ€™s prices or what you can view. Remember that as you call democrats, socialists.

All of these media outlets are subject to anti-trust and anti-monopoly regulations. We just stopped enforcing those laws from the last Great Depression that break up monopolies.

I hate that, I hear you and agree with you fully. I still don't like it. Like you are ranting against oligarchs. On the largest one's platform. And here is the catch 22 it will NEVER improve till his staff stops placating and using Twitter first. Makes me mad.

The billionaires are playing games, and using their obscene wealth to try to buy or disrupt elections, and in the case of Musk he shut down Starlink for Ukraine at a crucial moment, and gave the Russians an advantage. Trust none of them, and do some research on your politicians, find their "money".

BlueSky shut me down on No Kings day saying that there was suspicious activity. I donโ€™t know what they were talking about, but I found it very rude. I also noticed that I lost two big accounts. What did I do?

They need to go after more than that. Sinclair broadcasting, paramount, meta and on and on. And the inheritance tax for anything over a billion needs to be close to 90%. No child should be a prince.

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Billionaires always have and always will own the media. Your issue is thinking you are a media consumer and have some rights, you don't, and aren't. You are in fact the product being sold, they choose how when and who they sell their products to, read the fine print next time.

Let me paint you a picture, Zuck is a pimp, the advertisers that fund and become revenue sources for meta are the Johns. That makes you the HO.... Does that make sense... Now, the real issue: those that own the means of production, control the government, and want to cull the labor force with A.I.

We have oligarchs making National decisions, unilaterally. We need real reform in two years when we get rid of these fuckers in the government.

Itโ€™s time to stop allowing such platforms a free speech free pass. They are abusing relaxed laws on platform content to pick and choose when to respect free speech. Democracy requires effective regulation to ensure access to information is not subject to the whims of a handful of rich men.

Notice. It's dragon-pile rich that try to "replace" us. They come into our country and think they can just buy their way to shitting on the rest of us. Poor immigrants aren't the problem. Rich immigrants come into our country and think they can do as they please, then they BLAME poor immigrants.

Why doesn't anyone other than Heather Cox Richardson seem to be talking about Starlink (Musk/Trump) shutting down Ukrainian anti-missile drones in the middle of a strategic mission?

Musk throttles war tech tRump sides with Russia TikTok censors Musk doc Instagram bans No Kings The whims of mad men.

Social media is about the audience, not the content. Everyone should post whatever they want, and everyone should post their responses. It's how sanity and democracy work.

#VoterParticipationIsTheKey Counted votes beat millionaire's funding. Democrats must grow voter participation that's how Mamdani & others won. Let's #VoteInNumbers2Big2Rig #ElectADemSuperMajority Democrats must #RescindTheTrumpBBBill #ImpeachTheSCOTUS6 #ImpeachConvictRemoveDT #ExpandTheSCOTUS

Maybe we should seriously consider unplugging all this social media. I see nothing but propaganda all the time.

Having a medical condition is no reason not to act responsibly in this matter. You can create space for those groups in the fediverse and invite everyone over. Groups that don't switch platforms are simply lazy and immoral. Their administrators are especially well-positioned to lead by example.

Not the social media are propaganda machines, but the monopolistic adtech platforms, which we don't need at all because we have social media, namely in the fediverse.

Public Services Media should have no more than 25% ownership... the other 75% MUST BE FCC... WITHOUT ASS KISSER Brandon Carr of course... Gotta have Board Morals. No ownership may be on Board.

We must make it a priority to breakup these huge media companies. This is how we defeated the first glided age and it needs to happen again. Doing so would increase the number of viewpoints we receive and would also increase employment.

its past time to BOYCOTT META AND X AND TIK TOK You people keep supporting the billionaires killing us then cry they arenโ€™t playing fair BOYCOTT YOU FUCKING IDIOTS

Yeah and SpaceX throttled down Ukraineโ€™s StarShield right as Putin ramped up attacks on civilians and life safety infrastructure.

Wow... I never knew Bernie Sanders was such a hypocrite. Also: bsky.app/profile/elfb...

Elf Burgerman@elfburgerman.bsky.social

Why is the No Kings movement complaining (about a friend of Donald T. treating them like a friend of Donald T. does, especially on the platform that said friend of Donald T. owns) while a whole fediverse is available to it?! #NoKings #ByeByeAdTechHelloFediverse

Feeling the Bern. I voted for Hilary in the primary because I thought he was too old. All these years later heโ€™s still going strong. I feel stupid now.

Well, the legislative, judicial, and executive branchesโ€”those are the three pillars of a democracy. The fourth pillar is the media, but it has been hijacked by fascists.