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The Atlantic Council is the US’s premier military-industrial complex think tank, and the fediverse is on their radar. PDF
The Atlantic Council is the US’s premier military-industrial complex think tank, and the fediverse is on their radar. PDF
Notably absent: The END FUCKING USERS!
This is probably the biggest blindspot in their analysis. They assume everyone is a helpless victim being manipulated by 'evil' governments like Russia, China, and Venezuela. Mastodon is a relatively small platform. There are very few celebrities. There are very few news organizations. People make an active choice to go there. Choosing which social media website you want to spend your time on is, in fact, a demonstration of media literacy. The 'threats' inherent to mass-media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are substantially different in nature from the 'threats' the alliance will encounter by small-ish tight-knit internet communities which stand by their principles.
I haven't read the pdf but I read your excerpts and this is infuriating
I wonder which lemmy users belong to the Atlantic Council, there must be at least one
:monkey-look-away:
lemmy.world
They really see themselves as the mandarins and us as NPCs with an excess of democracy to be managed.
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