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[-] Szymon@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 year ago

Regulatory Capture is when corporations install favourable politicians and former employees into positions that enact policies and regulations favourable to the goals of industry (profit).

I think what we're saying here is Corporate Capture, where malicious players have captured major corporate entities in an attempt to neuter platforms that are used by the masses in an effort to control the messages given to the population.

People start talking about revolution, and suddenly the mediums used to enable free communication are removed.

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Thanks for putting my thoughts into easily digestible words. Enshittification isn't natural, it's deliberate. Any CEO 's who throw up their hands and say they're all of ideas are just trying to pull the rip cords of their golden parachutes, given to them by people who want us to believe it's unavoidable.

Was not breaking something that hard? No, but it doesn't pay as well.

[-] olympicyes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And Threads shows up right on cue with a stated deemphasis on news and politics. Meanwhile politicians are pushing to ban TikTok.

[-] Bozicus@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed that Threads is sinister, but I think a lot of the reason politicians dislike Tik Tok is that it’s exporting massive quantities of American users’ data to China. US politicians don’t really take it seriously enough to believe that teenagers could use it to start a revolution, but they are pretty sure the Chinese government can use it to spy on Americans.

[-] mjhelto@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Well, TikTok has China, who would love nothing more than to destabilize the US further to increase their global power. Had it not been for COVID, they only needed to wait since tRump was doing his best to help them out. I suspect this is why it's only TikTok they want to ban anymore; it's the only social media platform they can't directly control.

This has been happening to reddit over the last decade and was only accelerated when reddit was used to facilitate a short squeeze on the market and caused a bunch of "market makers" to lose a lot of money. They couldn't control reddit back then, but they sure can once it's public and they fulfill their fiduciary promises to reddit.

[-] olympicyes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t use TikTok but it seems like young people use it to get the word out whenever they are treated unfairly. Huge portions of Reddit, IG, and YouTube are TikTok reposts now.

[-] jarfil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

politicians are pushing to ban TikTok

Depends on the country. All over Europe politicians are using TikTok to promote their political views...

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