Against Digital Enslavemen

The American Mind ^ | 11/02/21 | Josh Hammer

[PoliticallyShort]

The imperative to reclaim our most foundational sovereignty—that is, greater direct control of our day-to-day actions, thoughts, interactions, business decisions, and, ultimately, our very shared human destiny—from the machines and their manipulated algorithms is the sine qua non of just and righteous “tech”-related policymaking in the digital age. This is a point that I attempted to hammer home time and again in my recent “Big Tech” debate in Grand Rapids, Michigan against Carl Szabo of NetChoice. Based on all the nodding heads I noticed in the audience, it resonated.

The American people by and large oppose digital enslavement. But instinctively, Americans also realize that such enslavement does indeed aptly characterize our current predicament. Americans are enslaved to the one-click shopping addictions of Jeff Bezos’s “neo-Dickensian” horror show, chastened by the debilitating chains of Mark Zuckerberg’s grotesque election interference gambits, routinely provoked into rage by deliberately polarizing social media algorithms, stifled and suppressed by modern-day robber baron Silicon Valley oligarchs like Google, and subject to a modern-day public square where Stanford and Berkeley computer science Ph.D. dweebs have “more power over what they can and cannot say in the public square than the First Amendment does.” Big Tech has emerged as the “ruling class’s preferred private-sector enforcement arm,” and the ruling class seeks to concentrate the digital medium into the palm of its proverbial hand, wielding it as a convenient “private-sector” catspaw to execute regime-level power in the service of rewarding its “Anywhere” friends and punishing its “Deplorable” enemies. Every medium that previously had some level of authority, gravitas, or culture-shaping force has collapsed into a single digital morass. There is no longer a meaningful distinction, from this perspective, between digitized U.S. Army propaganda, the latest Marvel film, Call of Duty, and what The NYT puts on its front page.

[Seruzawa]

Time for the Butlerian Jihad.

[caww]

In reality the youth are the ones posting 24/7.....and the social media sites know this. When you pull up You tube even all their references are child related nonsense......and worse adults today are acting like children. It is no wonder kids aren’t interested in what adults say....they try to be like the kids instead of staying in their own lane.

Further the kids are hardwired to technology and that’s not going to change. The world will one day completely operate for the most part on line.