Adamski wrote:odysseus2000 wrote:Maybe you should give it a go. User numbers are relentlessly increasing.Regards,
I have family that like it, but I spend enough time on here, Facebook and news apps as it is. It'll be interesting if the govt restrict social media, their authoritarian tendencies appear strong (reform planning laws, fast track justice/prison for far right protests, proposed smoking ban).
Governments have learned how to use social media to get their message across while at the same time suppressing any comment that is critical of them.
The x-files after the takeover of Twitter contained strong evidence of government manipulation & Facebook have just announced similar manipulation even going to the level of removing jokes & satire during the Covid pandemic. Things can of course change, but it seems governments prefer to silently manipulate users rather than trying to ban platforms. Banning social media would be hard in countries with a tradition of free speech, but easy in totalitarian states like China & now the newly quasi dictatorship that is currently Brazil.
Regards,