People already trust these companies 100% to decide what they can read, de facto:
The evidence is that your FB messenger inbox is not filled with porn spam 400 times per second.
This is all fine and good until these centralized, sometimes-censored systems are commandeered by the state to censor person-to-person communications (whether it be on a certain topic, using certain keywords, or all messages to/from users in a certain geofence).
This is turnkey tyranny, and you wouldn't even know it had happened. The command to the service providers would be gag ordered, it wouldn't be visible, it wouldn't be reproducible, and it wouldn't make the news.
I am convinced that this represents one of the greatest threats to our society: the danger is imminent. If it hasn't happened already, it will soon.
The evidence is that your FB messenger inbox is not filled with porn spam 400 times per second.
This is all fine and good until these centralized, sometimes-censored systems are commandeered by the state to censor person-to-person communications (whether it be on a certain topic, using certain keywords, or all messages to/from users in a certain geofence).
This is turnkey tyranny, and you wouldn't even know it had happened. The command to the service providers would be gag ordered, it wouldn't be visible, it wouldn't be reproducible, and it wouldn't make the news.
I am convinced that this represents one of the greatest threats to our society: the danger is imminent. If it hasn't happened already, it will soon.
https://sneak.berlin/20200421/normalcy-bias/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24630900