The mechanisms of the Gafa are brilliant and infernal. Meotti’s post
The Gafa have created a brilliant and infernal mechanism: censorship in the name of freedom, exclusion in the name of inclusion, discrimination in the name of the fight against discrimination, hatred in the name of the fight against hatred, intolerance in the name of tolerance. The tweets of Giulio Meotti, journalist and essayist
That the largest social networks in the world have banned the president of the United States speaks volumes about the problem of freedom of thought we have created. Because we created it.
We have given all this power to Californian kids and we have allowed them to become a monopoly, the "Gafa", and now they go into the box office, chasing those who are ideologically opposed, acting as publishers.
They have created a brilliant and infernal mechanism: censorship in the name of freedom, exclusion in the name of inclusion, discrimination in the name of the fight against discrimination, hatred in the name of the fight against hatred, intolerance in the name of tolerance.
Soon there will be no more missteps on race, gender, Islam, climate and much more. They will also check for commas. And they will also banner people on the left who are not entirely aligned, as is already happening.
Here, in fact, there is no left or right, but the mental health of Western societies in the face of a mega intertwining of ideology and big data. And their answer is even unquestionable: “It's the market, beauty”.
In fact, George Orwell when he wrote "1984" did not understand that the standardization of thought, Newspeak, the Ministry of Information and anti-phrasing would come not from the state, but from private individuals. And that is why it is all the more difficult to fight them.
Tweet by Giulio Meotti, journalist of the Foglio, author of "The tomb of God" (Cantagalli), "Europe without Jews" (Lindau) and "The Last Pope of the West?" (Liberalibri)
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/i-meccanismi-dei-gafa-sono-geniali-e-infernali-il-post-di-meotti/ on Sat, 09 Jan 2021 18:00:44 +0000.