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RE: Steemit vs Facebook. My experience

in #steemit7 years ago

FB was great networking hub once. But now it's stale. It's so full of what they think you should see and hear. I'm going to touch on a conspiracy theory here too. The TV has long been used to manipulate public opinion (including on who should run a country) and manufacture consent for war and other atrocities. And I believe FB has set itself up as the prominent, new mind control tool.
It "suggests" posts. That is a double edged blade. Advertising your business? Great. Why not? If you can afford the extortionate fees. If you don't pay them your posts are limited to a tiny organic reach. That is a new thing. And it limits NGO's and other legitimate not-for-profit's reach. Which limits important information that many people want to know.
They are using the excuse of limiting misinformation (which is also a double edged blade) to censor. I have one friend who is an advocate for asylum seekers that are being held in concentration camps in Nauru and Manus. She has been there numerous times, and is in constant contact with the prisoners and lawyers and workers from the camps, the UN, Doctors who have worked there etc... She is the go to person for truth. And they are trying to censor her for saying other than the official govt propagandous lies. We are just lucky that the UN and the ICC are now doing thorough investigations into the criminal activities of the ABF and Immigration Minister, Dutton, otherwise she would be at risk of her posts as being classified as misinformation. But FB can't do that because international news sources and official international organisations have the information on their websites.

It used to be a great place. Now it's a corporate controlled, manipulative, nightmare.