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by bugglebeetle 1149 days ago
We can of course also judge the track record on this kind of techno-optimist rhetoric. People expressed all the same lofty ideals about social media, almost all of which have been outweighed by what we really got: anger-driven addiction, micro-targeted propaganda, turn-key state surveillance, and teenagers attempting suicide at all time highs.
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> People expressed all the same lofty ideals about social media

Who (that wasn't a billionaire owner of a social media company)? Also, major strawman.

Now take that and 100x it.