alt Hacker NewsThere is no authoritarian leaning technology. People figured out how to create 1984 while saying they defend free speech.
It is simply that, eventually, people learn how to use technology to their advantage.
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swayvil • last Monday at 2:12 PM
There is a small community of billionaires who control everything to the best of their ability. They control for their own benefit.
Technology, its development and production, is one thing that they control.
The rest of the population (the nonbillionaires) is another thing that they seek to control. It's near the top of their list.
Phones, internet and social media are tools for controlling us. Arguably. Right?
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I agree with this. And yet.
> It is simply that, eventually, people learn how to use technology to their advantage.
What should we call this accumulation of lessons in how to do things for your benefit? It can be and is encoded as algorithms is it not?