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Except for the Brother printer everyone has.
Except for the Brother printer everyone has.
Yes, I’ve been taken prisoner by the concept that unnecessary censorship is a bad thing. Good deduction, Sherlock. 🙄
Holy strawmen, Batman! You’ve assembled an entire hay loft of them there, gramps!
At first I thought you were coming from a place of bias and baseless stereotyping but now I know for a fact that you are.
Get out of the way and let people younger than your apparent 80 years express themselves how they want to.
Look I’m not a prude or some kinda anti-sex freak but
proceeds to rattle off a bunch of prudish anti-sex talking points followed by “trust me, I have a degree” 🤦
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You make some good points, but you’re also overstating the power of captology to the point of sounding paranoid tbh. Pretending that someone who’s aware of it, how it works and its goals is still completely powerless to resist is some misanthropic bullshit that gives some people (aware “consoomers” 🙄) far too little credit and others (the people developing captology and other disgustingly manipulative marketing strategies) far too much.
Is gaslighting and other propaganda, whether by human or technology, much more effective than most people know or are willing to admit? Definitely. Is it the Borg, though? Absolutely not.
I like that the article consistently refers to Meta as what it is, an adtech giant that also runs social media platforms rather than the other way around.