• FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    As a multibillionaire capitalist, she was a woman who wielded tremendous power to shape society. The way she utilized that political power was to reproduce fascism and profit off of enormous amounts of people being programmed with a reactionary agenda. She utilized her power to commodify the basic social process of communicating ideas and informing others, and on top of monetizing this very fundamental process her service vandalizes it with a recommendation algorithm that bastardizes the information you receive to bias it towards whatever keeps you hooked longer. These decisions have led to literal thousands of lifetimes spent watching brain rotting garbage.

    The aggregate of all the social harm she brought about with the very deliberate choices she made would be enough to eclipse the good any of us may achieve in our own lifetimes.

    To paraphrase a tweet I really like, fascists are human; they have families, internal lives, are capable of making choices, and feel all the same emotions as you and I. But that doesn’t diminish the need for them to be shot.