I’ll be dusting off the old keyboard and going back to blogging. I want to go back to the root of the social media revolution. Blogs gave people the power to escape the industrial media complex, censors, thought police, and corporate do-gooders to avoid their narratives and explore new realities and ideas. Looking back, the era of blogs was the Wild West of the age of social media. What we have now is some dystopian version where we are not much more than metrics.
When freedom of expression is boiled down to predetermined selections offered to us by corporate special interests, politicians, and elitists it is no longer freedom nor expression. It is tyranny.
The current algorithm driven formats of social media are designed for commerce not freedom of speech or the discussion of self governance. In fact the platforms we became accustomed to utilizing for sharing our personal (and political) beliefs in Twitter and Facebook are in fact now designed to stifle speech, sow devision, and create chaos all the while enriching the CEOs who harvest our data along the way.
When political discourse devolves into likes, retweets, and ratio’ing our opponents we are failing at the great American Experiment. We are failing Democracy. We are failing our forefathers who gave us a Republic and a road map to Liberty.
More to come.
