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Elon Musk has rendered the world a great service. Thanks to his takeover of Twitter, a lot of information has been leaked about Big Tech's manipulations and government interference in social media. The first thing we learned after Elon's audit of Twitter is that about 50% of the Twitter accounts are fake and that the medium employed thousands of employees whose daily job was to sabotage, block, ban or delete Twitter accounts , shadow tweets preventing other users from seeing them and ban or delete tweets. Unseen censorship in superior ranking. Freedom of speech did not exist anymore. Even Presidents of world nations did not escape of the evil practices of Big Tech.
What we didn’t know until recentely but has now been leaked - thanks to research by journalist and associate of Elon Musk, Matt Taibbi - is that Twitter was in practice fully controlled by the FBI. He even states that Twitter is actually an affiliate of the US federal police. The FBI's interference went so far that it not only possessed the data of all users and the content of their publications, but also actively instructed Twitter employees on which profiles should be shadowed, suspended, banned and deleted. Twitter was and is thus a collective database where the FBI in cooperation with GAFAM, the intelligence agency, spies on people undisturbed and secretly collects data on them. Not just of US residents but of all Twitter users worldwide.
On Facebook, Instagram and other social media, it’s no different. They too collect data about you that they sell to interested parties or, as the case may be, pass on for free to intelligence services and state security agencies of various countries. Data and information is the new black gold. Meta knows everything about you far beyond its own social platforms. If you log on to some webshop, Facebook records it. It knows what you buy or don't buy, what you eat and drink, how many people your family consists of, who your friends and colleagues are.It knows all your interests, your opinions, your views, your habits, where you go to, how long you stay at a location, when you return home, how much time you spend on the internet, what sites you visit, what pages you click on, how many hours you sleep, whether or not you work out and what sports you play, whether you visit porn sites, which ones, what your watch, if you have an affair en with whom and alla bout your other possible frivolous indulgences. There is very little that Meta does not know about you. By the way, it also knows the content of all the Messenger messages you exchange. It deletes or blocks content that does not comply with it’s community rules. Moreover, it stores all your messages even if you delete them on your own account. No word you ever wrote and no photo you ever shared is lost. Meta keeps track of it all.
How do you feel now you know that every move you make is being tracked, recorded and sold or passed on ?
The CEO of Meta ( owner of Facebook, Instagram and Messenger ) has been grilled many times during court hearings in the US over these systematic intrusions into the private lives of its users. He always plays dumb and usually cannot answer the questions put to him but the man obviously knows all too well that what his company is doing is completely illegal. Twittergate has also brought this painfully to the surface.
Privacy laws exist in just about every Western country. In some countries, the protection of private life is even inscribed in the constitution, as a fundamental right of every citizen. Big Tech, however, squarely sweeps at these laws off the table. It sets its own rules. Those who do not accept those rules are denied access to its platforms or kicked out. Although completely illegal, it can do this perfectly well as long as users accept its Gestapo policy. They still do, en masse. They don’t realise that they cannot assert rights and Meta has no contractual obligations towards them because the medium is made available for free. A paying customer can assert rights. Those who use a particular service for free, on the other hand, must submit to the rules unilaterally imposed by the provider. Gratuity has a price.
All existing social media platforms are in serious violation of the GDPR legislation that requires service providers to register, verify and track en check the identity of users of their services and store their data during 3 to 5 years.
Every company, no matter how small, has to comply with the strict GDPR legislation under penalty of high fines and other sanctions but Big Tech is left untouched. No fines, no penalties, no orders to ban or remove fake profiles. The EU and the state leaders of individual member states just let it slide. Perhaps they are proclaiming among themselves that the benefits that Big Tech brings them do not outweigh the drawbacks and egregious violations of current legislation. As always, the ordinary citizen loses again.
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