God, I wish Orwell were alive right now... So much of what he wrote about is becoming a reality. Just look at the UK. You can literally risk going to jail for posting any anti-immigrant stuff on Twitter or Facebook.
When it comes to freedom of speech, Twitter is somehow a different animal since Elon took over, but Facebook is still a wreck—an ideal tool for censorship and control of the information that reaches the public through the app.
This morning, while scrolling through my Twitter feed, I came across a video of some guy being visited by FBI agents for something he posted online. The man clearly knows his rights because he sent them away with ease.
Then I stumbled upon a short clip shared by Elon Musk featuring Hillary Clinton, who was publicly calling for people to be jailed for spreading misinformation. But who decides what’s misinformation and what isn’t?
Are we going to let algorithms make that call? Because if we do, then the people feeding those algorithms will shape our online reality, rights, and obligations in their own Orwellian way. Is calling a biological male a man and not using pronouns misinformation now?
Life used to be so much simpler before COVID. I don’t know about you, but it feels like after all that nonsense, a lot has changed regarding our collective mental health (if we can call it that), and things that were normal before are now considered outrageous—or labeled misinformation.
If I remember right, saying that vaccines could cause myocarditis back in 2021 was also considered misinformation. Fast forward three years, and it’s officially acknowledged that some vaccines do cause that. In certain countries, such vaccines are even banned now...
The internet used to be a free space. If someone got offended by a post or thought some information wasn’t true, they’d just ignore it. But now we’re seeing the virtual space being policed.
Hillary Clinton doesn’t seem concerned at all about Jeffrey Epstein’s client list—a notorious pedophile who trafficked many young girls to his island, where famous individuals like Clinton, Chris Rock, and others would go to have sexual relations with them.
Epstein was a crook, and whether he killed himself or not doesn’t bother me. What does bother me is that real crimes are being protected by politicians and law enforcement, while online conversations are gradually being criminalized.
That’s what’s really painful... But as long as we have fast food on every corner, free porn, video games, and crappy social media, who cares, right?
Thanks for your attention,
Adrian