MEDIAWATCH: Shouldn’t we all be far more concerned about CCPs control of Tic Tok than Musk taking over Twitter?

If the woke all quit Twitter because Musk has bought it, how will they tell us that we are all racist, transphobic, misogynists 24/7?

To our faces?

Come on!

If you whine and move to #Mastodon you aren’t allowed back on #Twitter.

Look, beyond the schadenfreude of watching the Wellington Woke scream and quit Twitter for Mastodon (good riddance) there is a fundamental danger in Musk owning Twitter.

In 2010, the 388 richest individuals owned more wealth than half of the entire human population on Earth

By 2015, this number was reduced to only 62 individuals

In 2018, it was 42

In 2019, it was down to only 26 individuals who own more wealth than 3.8 billion people.

And in 2021, 20 people owned more than 50% of the entire planet.

And last month the richest man on Earth bought one of the most important social media platforms.

That is absolutely an issue, but surely the bigger threat is the CCPs control of the far more popular Tic Toc?

New Zealand MPs warned not to use TikTok over fears China could access data

 

The Big Tech Tzars have manipulated our collective fear, ego, anger and insecurities through social media in a way that has led to the largest psychological civil war ever launched against one another.

Meanwhile, the planet burns and every aspect of our existence is monetarised for big data to sell us more stuff we can’t afford. We are alienated and anesthetized by a consumer culture that keeps us neurotic and disconnected. Our work, our existence, every move we make are all built to suck money to a minority class that sits above us while under neoliberalism, globalization, financialization, and automation, our existence as individuals has only become more disposable.

 

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