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- Ianbolton2
I joined again in December, then closed my account again the other week. Great story huh? Anyway, i think we're being a bit harsh on all these tech companies. After listening to the problems they have politically and legally in regards to how WE use them and how THEY 'acquire' our personal information, i think it's a real world problem for all of us moving forward. Just look at all the hate on Twitter, how do we close something like that down while keeping it a free-speech platform? Is it up to us (as users) to adapt to these new technologies while the corporations themselves constantly tread new pathways in privacy and online lawmaking? Until we find our feet and navigate such difficult platforms, often restricting our language and even ourselves, we're beginning to realise we're actually fucking ourselves up with all this technology - but hopefully we'll find a place for it in the future. It's changing how we interact, our view on globalisation, on the governance of societies and the spread of news - fake or not. It's a crazy world out there, but unless we keep a tight check on things (which I think we are doing) it's a tightrope of the deeply polarised world of human emotions and political game playing. How do we control something globally when countries like China have such tight restrictions locally?
Anyway, just a brain dump there! :-)