This: “The idea that we should always have these platforms in the forefront of our minds all the time as we walk around the world is solely to the benefit of the corporations. It’s not to the benefit of humans and connection.”
grosser seems really really smart but he makes a completely false equivalency between tiktok and facebook/instagram. for all their many faults, neither of meta’s platforms have algorithms controlled by the us government. the ccp, meanwhile, literally has their thumb on the scale of tiktok’s algorithm and exerts at least some amount of influence.
This: “The idea that we should always have these platforms in the forefront of our minds all the time as we walk around the world is solely to the benefit of the corporations. It’s not to the benefit of humans and connection.”
Whoa.
What a great read! Fascinating interview!
grosser seems really really smart but he makes a completely false equivalency between tiktok and facebook/instagram. for all their many faults, neither of meta’s platforms have algorithms controlled by the us government. the ccp, meanwhile, literally has their thumb on the scale of tiktok’s algorithm and exerts at least some amount of influence.