Social Media as Social Control.
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Whether planned or not, Social Media's prime current function is behavioral engineering at a massive scale. Most sites function as massive Skinner's Boxes, conditioning users to behaviors desired by those who run the sites. Part of this is inevitable, but it has certainly accelerated in recent years and will continue so long as people continue to rely on such sites. My website: https://lukesmith.xyz Please donate: https://lukesmith.xyz/donate Get all my videos off YouTube: https://videos.lukesmith.xyz or Odysee: https://odysee.com/#x2F;invite/@Luke:7 BTC: 12QjH1bh6F497wGNT6ns3BkFDCMaezgace ETH: 0x2918DC0aF17C0f8327976Bb7Fce8eD76F74dcaD7 XMR: 48jewbtxe4jU3MnzJFjTs3gVFWh2nRrAMWdUuUd7Ubo375LL4SjLTnMRKBrXburvEh38QSNLrJy3EateykVCypnm6gcT9bh OR affiliate links to things l use: https://www.vultr.com/?ref=8384069-6G Get a VPS and host a website or server for anything else. https://www.epik.com/?affid=we2ro7sa6 Get a cheap and reliable domain name with Epik. https://brave.com/luk005 Get the Brave browser. https://lbry.tv/#x2F;invite/@Luke View my videos on LBRY. Get a bonus for joining. https://www.coinex.com/register?refer_code=ndf87 Get crypto-rich on Coinex. Get reduced exchange fees for 3 months. https://www.coinbase.com/join/smith_5to1 Get crypto-rich on Coinbase. We both get $10 in Bitcoin when you buy or sell $100 in cryptocurrencies.

Other than the fact that I hate being watched because it makes me feel uncomfortable. I don’t see any other reason to be scared of mass surveillance. until I realize there was a more considerable reason.

The point of mass surveillance, is mass control.

On top of their surveillance technologies, they created a centralized system to feed on people. Before that they were using television, and then now, social media.

The reason is heavily tied to politics. The reason this exists is simple, they do it for money, status, and power. not that they care how you behave or think.

On another note, these “services” that you’re using. made by Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk. what do they have in common? Destroy the environment, Exploit workers and take away people’s freedom and give only a little donation for the environment in comparison to the damages they made. No justifiable reason can be made here. Not only you’re being spied on, you’re contributing to evil things by giving them your money and time.

We can’t fight for something good without getting affected by these systems. and if not all, most of us is inside that system at this very moment.

For your own well-being and the importance of humanity and the environment. get out as fast as possible.

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  • soronixa@lemmy.ml
    41·
    4 years ago

    yeah, Luke Smith has interesting takes and ideas when it comes to foss and social media, but about politics …

    let’s say he resembles fungus growing on trees.

    • 4815162342@lemmy.ml
      5·
      4 years ago

      I used to watch his videos quite a bit, but I gave up on them. He’s showcased some decent Linux things before, and he occasionally has a good point about other things, but Luke is an idiot about most things. For example with the coronavirus stuff he believes there’s nothing to it outside of a normal seasonal flu and that it’s all about “political ends”. (I don’t use 4chan, so I don’t know what the general view there is, but I remember people joking that he bought into every meme from /g/, so it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s where some of his other views come from.)

      He likes to talk up his independence, but it sounds like his current situation is made possible solely because of family. He mentioned (only once I think) that he had some sort of inheritance when he was looking for property to buy, and then he wound up getting a good deal on his house from family. He lives out in the country and is able to survive because of a massive number of things that he constantly speaks out against (like roads for example but also social media).

      The general hypocrisy he constantly displays is pretty comical too. He’ll tell his viewers how bad cell phones are, but he has one that he uses (he used to say that he only had/used it because his parents had him on their plan). He’ll tell his viewers how dumb college is and that they shouldn’t go, but he’s working on a PhD in linguistics (it might make sense for someone to go, get a bachelor’s degree, and still speak negatively about it, but to go as far as he has it’s just hypocritical). He’ll tell his viewers how they shouldn’t play games because they’re a pointless waste of time, but he has games on his computer including a full Nintendo 64 ROM set, and he has a physical N64 that was on his desk in a video once. (When the ROMs were visible in a video he said he just has them for nostalgia but doesn’t play them, and someone commented that they’re expecting to see a full collection of Playboy magazines that Luke just has for nostalgia and never looks at.) He’ll complain about consumers, but he participated in Black Friday sales because he really wanted something (I guess unlike the other people who bought stuff that day). And on it goes.

      One funny thing is that he was saying that anti-systemd talk is cringe with no basis to it. Then within very little time he was talking about how he uses Artix now because it doesn’t have “soystemd”. (Personally, I don’t know enough either way to say anything, I just think the flip is funny.) I think he’s just someone who takes strong stances on things he doesn’t know enough to be taking such strong stances about.