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Not the citizens? i think we saw this very early with the arab spring and how quickly it turned into the arab winter, right? and we just didnt see it as a cautionary tale for countries like the philippines. naive, maybe. but at that time, it changed. it disrupted. but then what happened is the tech optimised to make more money. a business model shoshana zuboff calls surveillance capitalism. and when you did that, you know, that meant even... everyone focuses on the content moderation, its not ab...

I think its fair to say 15 years ago, the assumption or the hope was that the internet was going to completely democratise our societies. it would empower people at the bottom. hierarchies would be changed from top down to bottom up. we all would have access to information at our fingertips, and that would improve our democracies. viewed from today, do you think that was wrong? terribly naive? that information flows, thanks to the internet, have empowered the authoritarians, not the citizens? i ...