At the WEF, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez calls for the end of anonymity on social media by forcing them to link all user accounts with the European digital identity wallet.
One way around this is to nationalize social media companies. Use public funding to run the service instead of private companies and run the service in the same way as licensing a vehicle to drive on the highway.
Social media has essentially become a public necessity that everyone wants and needs, it should be run and regulated like the public water system. It should be run, controlled, regulated and monitored by a system like the postal service where it isn’t designed to make money but instead concentrate all is activity into just providing a critical independent service to everyone.
Then the state acquires the ability to spy on all your communications, and when the state is taken over by bad actors (as now), they can use that to blackmail, bully or worse.
And they will spy on us, at some point, if this were to be allowed to pass. Not a question of “if” the government will abuse it, but “which” government will abuse it.
One way around this is to nationalize social media companies. Use public funding to run the service instead of private companies and run the service in the same way as licensing a vehicle to drive on the highway.
Social media has essentially become a public necessity that everyone wants and needs, it should be run and regulated like the public water system. It should be run, controlled, regulated and monitored by a system like the postal service where it isn’t designed to make money but instead concentrate all is activity into just providing a critical independent service to everyone.
Then the state acquires the ability to spy on all your communications, and when the state is taken over by bad actors (as now), they can use that to blackmail, bully or worse.
And they will spy on us, at some point, if this were to be allowed to pass. Not a question of “if” the government will abuse it, but “which” government will abuse it.