Facebook does have a monopoly. As evidenced by how it bought out Instagram, its only threat. How it is grooming the 3rd World with Whats App. How it demolished a MySpace that was the last hope of independent musicians after the internet turned out to be the destroyer of worlds, that gave us Donald Trump as our global overlord in a now terrifying end game.
MySpace brought music back in our lives in new exciting ways. And we threw it away.
Facebook brought back Nazis that will kick your ass and sue you unless you recognize their new brand identity as the Alt Right. And I want to throw up on their new Fred Perry polo shirts.
But how do you break up a social media Empire like the US Government did with all the Baby Bells? How do you stop a train wreck that has already happened?
These are Robber Barons. They own the tracks. They created a network that became the means in which we communicate with our friends, our families, our customers, and for some the means of how they seeth at and mock those they hate, because they are basically disposable grade scum bags.
But in that sense we, even the scum bags are held hostage. But our information is already held hostage.
Being this connected and well marketed to is not good for your health. But it could be worse. But it wouldn’t be the optimal rate in which a factory cow is milked and a pimp works his hoe. There are limits and data and figures.
Big Data. It’s easy for Zuckerberg to know when you sleep. Not that he cares. But the big picture? The ant farm? Sure.
Have you noticed how your MySpace page is gone but the photos are popping up on Google images? You don’t own those photos. But you used to own those family photos.
How do you break up this monster? Remember people panicking about MySpace charging? Remember when people would post declarations of privacy like it would actually mean something?
Oh people still do that 15 years later. We are a slow moving species caught in a fast cooking oven.
Are you Hansel or are you Gretel? This is all getting quite grim. But you knew this was coming. But Zuckerberg is looking at graphs about how fast you will forget.
Forget fish in the bowl, just forget. But we got a long fine before social media. We got along better.
I am a pretty big winner in this racket because I can write 1000 words and I have a collection of friends smart enough to read along, which is supposed to be unheard of on this medium by the way. It’s highly discouraged. The algorithm is not really in my favor. But the humans are.
You know, if I had the chance to erase FB and everything I ever wrote to make this global monster go away, I would press that button yesterday. But there is no going back to the world before this. The technology has caught up to us. It’s an addiction to the very dystopia we should otherwise be rejecting.
This is in some ways much sadder than Big Brother. This is what happens when computers were not able yet to think, but we’re fully capable of figuring us out. Our programming, our conditioning, our reality, our fear, and the limits of our pain.
But how do you break up a think that has a hold on everyone? You saw the terms and conditions. As John Oliver said, you might have signed Mein Kamf for all you know.
Davin’s new song has been released and is fast becoming a dancehall hit. Listen here on Reggaeville: DAVIN MICHAEL STEDMAN & ANTHONY RED ROSE – FREE YOUR MIND FEAT. SLY & ROBBIE WITH LENKY MARSDEN
– Musician and writer Davin Michael Stedman has many musical ventures and is one of the driving forces behind the Staxx Brothers. He has just returned from three weeks of networking and reporting from Kingston, Jamaica. Next stop, Lagos, Nigeria.
