WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT ARTICLE 13 & THE END OF YOUTUBE [YOUTUBE LIVE Q&A] - Roberto Blake
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Oh, cool!
yes, I remember last month or 2 mths ago YT's CEO has made an open to all video-appeal, regarding the restrictions prepared in Europe.
perhaps it is not exactly about the end of internet per se, but rather about emerging of "Borders" within internet. which in fact has started quite some time ago, for example China restricting FB and some other social media - then instead creating their own analogue of those. also as I remember earlier Iran once restricting Twitter (after that "Twitter revolution") and may be later Egypt too... etc. etc.
many countries has done similar or the same with various social networks.
the thing is, term "infowars" has not just been coined by Alex Jones nor merely is the product of his imagination or of sick minds of "conspiracy theorists". social media are really being used as an informational warfare. that's besides all other things it is being used for, of course. therefore it is inevitable that various countries impose different restrictions. and if do sufficient research will see that actually US is one of the main one who does the most censorship and restrictions. (again Alex Jones comes to mind, and that's just among most publicly known cases - not even talking about less known)
so, it is a political issue, unfortunately. and class action lawsuits are quite unlikely to help anything at all. (not more than help Assange or Alex Jones - if some would bother to try)
Absolutely agree. There are layers to this thing. It's more about their control over us and censorship, removing whatever little freedom we have.
come to think of it ... as saying goes "free cheese is in mice trap"...
presently well known social media and related networks did not just emerge by chance or due to sort of "evolution of human intelligence and freedom of speech, expression, trans-border socialization". I won't be at all surprised if after certain due diligent thorough research it would be proved by facts that all those social networks has been introduced to masses on purpose, very calculatively. for example, there are sufficient statistics providing evidences that a lot of (if not all) so called "colored revolutions" has been greatly influenced by social media or in many cases social media played perhaps even central role in certain events...
it is a long and broad subject... which requires research, reading, thinking, understanding or at least TIME and ATTENTION - THE most rarest commodities!
but at the same time, the whole irony is:
another side of side effects of social media - that attention and time span each person is able to afford to spent on particular bits and pieces of information is getting more and more short!
which simply kind of nullifies that requirement of spending enough Time and Attention on doing sufficient research on anything at all (i.e. "due diligence")
people are too overwhelmed with "Content" and all sort of information, flooded with all sorts of things. therefore they simply do not have enough of those commodities / currencies (Time and Attention) and less so desire and interest - to bother doing sufficient research on anything!
thus in the end people are transforming into species of Consumers of so called "Content" in form of various basic trivial pieces of information and very Superficial ideas and concepts.
and curiously that here on Steemit there are a lot of talks about "content indifference" - which I suppose reflects the overall state of affairs on internet. so, then what to talk about having any at all proper understanding of particular things sufficient for making their own decisions or actions... :)
but then, I guess still, efforts of individuals as yourself who try to share such information and create the awareness - are not yet entirely useless! :)
at very least, as saying goes "similar things get attracted mutually" sort of.
in the same way, people who are still able to dig deeper (than just superficial level / layer) are capable to find those similarly minded.
well, I hope so and prefer to believe it is so... :)
They are banking on our short attention spans to not be able to do our own due diligence and not be able to do our own research. However, there are those who do that research and then share it in more bite-sized and comprehensive pieces. Someone like me has trouble with all those fancy shmancy legal terms and I need a dictionary beside me when I read things like that. I have to do it in little bits otherwise I lose focus. My reading comprehension has always been poor, especially when it comes to legal terms written in ways that we don't speak and is made to confuse us more than to inform us. That's why those who understand the mumbojumbo and translate that for us to understand it are valuable.
Hope is always what helps me move forward. I will continue to create my content until the day I am told I cannot anymore. I will not stop just because it might happen. Creating makes me happy, so I continue to do so. And then if the inevitable does happen, I have backup plans.
It's funny. I wrote a story which I'll be publishing in the Spring, and the characters in it are fighting "For the Freedom of Life." That phrase somehow has taken on more meaning than I could have imagined when I first write it 16 years ago. It's taken me this long to come to a ready stage for publication and I have no idea how I'm going to fare, but I have a feeling that it's happening at just the right time. Because today we are fighting for the Freedom of Life, for real.
exactly! :)
glad to meet a fellow researcher person who does bother to make due diligent efforts to figure out things, connect the dots and put the pieces of puzzle together! :)
Thanks. Sometimes my mind can't comprehend everything, but hen that happens, Frank, my husband just fills me in on what he's learnt. His mind can handle a lot more of that kind of info than mine. So together we put our resources and what we've learnt and discuss it. It always helps having a "team".