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What happens to an idea/ideology which won't confirm to the leftist/liberal standards set by the Big Tech oligarchy?
Google will down rank you into oblivion
Amazon algorithms will ban your book
Facebook will freeze your spread
Twitter will shadow ban or delete you
(A thread) 1/n
Google will down rank you into oblivion
Amazon algorithms will ban your book
Facebook will freeze your spread
Twitter will shadow ban or delete you
(A thread) 1/n
Big tech's total ownership of mass behavioural data and the corrosive social effects caused by their wilful modifications is the greatest political threat of our times
Make no mistake, no nation or society is insulated from it, least of all a highly connected India! 2/n
Make no mistake, no nation or society is insulated from it, least of all a highly connected India! 2/n
Big tech is no longer just interested in profits, for now they have moved beyond the previous phase of behavioural predictions (the click economy), they are now in the phase of behavioural engineering at mass scale
Engineering the masses in the US is just the beginning... 3/n
Engineering the masses in the US is just the beginning... 3/n
In India we do not even understand the problem, let alone think about a solution.
Data localisation, intermediaries policy changes or even "building our own apps" (which can be banned at any time by play-store à la Parler) merely address the symptoms not the problem! 4/n
Data localisation, intermediaries policy changes or even "building our own apps" (which can be banned at any time by play-store à la Parler) merely address the symptoms not the problem! 4/n
At the very least, the first step that India could take is to bring all the Algorithms and AI deployed in India by any company under the effective governance of the state and active interference of jurisprudence
This is only the 1st step, from where the long battle begins 5/n
This is only the 1st step, from where the long battle begins 5/n
Eventually, it is incumbent upon the govt, the state and perhaps most importantly, the BJP and the RSS leadership to move beyond mere policy changes and begin actively competing in the core data-tech game of behavioural engineering. (The End) 6/6
