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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Capitalism. Capitalism caused this. Big Tech is just a vessel that is used by capitalists to further their agenda.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Big Tech is a force multiplier. It amplifies the scale and scope of the damage. To make an analogy, it's like replacing muskets with machine guns. Capitalism was headed this direction long before tech came along, but with tools like these in their pocket, the scale of the disinformation went from "a serious problem" to "an existential crisis", and the tools we have to resist it are simply incapable of holding the line against the firehose of BS.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

That’s what I was trying to say, but I like your explanation better than mine. 😅

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago

incapable of holding the line against the fire hose of BS

Also known as Brandolini's law

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law