The life of tenants on the big tech plantation…
My ex girlfriend told me her mother’s shop got deleted from Facebook. Her mother is not a notorious troll like me so I wonder what happened. The algorithm could have fucked up. It could have been a glitch because I heard other people got randomly deleted from Facebook for no reason at all. This is a pit fall of these online businesses, it is good when it works, and totally sucks when they cut you off.
My short term rentals are dependent on Booking and AirBNB. I am totally paranoid about maintaining good relations with these platforms. I am writing a book and will be dependent on Amazon for distribution, and social media for propagation. Number of books have been banned on Amazon for ideological reasons, and I have to be extra careful what I write, self censorship.
What are the methods of dealing with this? Can the state be a champion of the citizens in litigation with these large transnational platforms? Do you think our leaders are up to the task? Do you think Keir Starmer, Petr Fiala, or Olaf Scholz will have your back? 😆
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Do you think our leaders are up to the task? Do you think Keir Starmer, Petr Fiala, or Olaf Scholz will have your back?
Let’s just say how this expectation of anyone who actually has your back, is the exact problem we have. I remember back in the days when I was 18, I had this old nigga from Oakland who told me this: truth to be told, nobody is your homeboy. That homeboys for life and ride or die homegirl bullshit exist in idealism only. I found that comment to be true as life goes on. The thing here, is that the entire Western world runs in individualism. That whole supporting each other mentality found among some teenage runaway communities in China, is not gonna really happen in the West at all. That said, how can anyone really expect the big guys to look after our asses? Trump, Harris and others alike, they care about their own pockets and elites’ agenda, just they go about it in different ways. You can try to bargain with them on certain things, but viewing them as some sort of Messiah figure is just stupid – that’s where my term of “Alabama Gandhi” came from.
I’d say we’re better off by looking at things through the angle of “what can it do to help me achieving my personal goal” than to expect them to be your guardian angel or teacher-for-life figure. Keep things rational I mean. It’s one of the keys to achieve happiness in today’s world.
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