this might sound insane, but considering that nowadays the internet takes up such a huge part of our lives? the countless issues with social media are starting to feel like a human rights issue. no corporation should get to dictate how we communicate with people online when it’s our main form of communication.
imagine if you had to hear ads in the middle of a phonecall from service you already paid good money for. imagine if there was somebody constantly interrupting your private hangouts with obnoxious curveballs and brick walls, all for the sake of gathering human reaction data. imagine if restaurants all collaborated with one another to purposely make it hard to converse with your friends. to drive expectations down so they could pass it off as a “new feature” they would charge for later. and imagine if the very concept of you having control over your own free time was described by these companies as “piracy”.
there are actually demons living inside your computer and they are called “CEOs”. big tech bastardizes the art of psychology into a tool of financial manipulation. all these extra clicks and microtransactions and hoops we have to go through add up. so much of our lives are going to waste in order to line the pockets of people who already have more money than god.
the internet is like a knife. a helpful tool that could be used for so many constructive things. that HAS done so much good for humanity. but instead it’s now being used by genuinely bad people to slit our throats.