#35 Most of those on the internet, including Facebook, Instagram and YouTube are low information users by choice. They go to catch up on the doings of their friends and relations on Facebook, of their favourite celebrities on Instagram, and music and How-To videos on YouTube. They get their news from the local newspaper and television station, and actively avoid being exposed to more than that because they simply don’t care — and they don’t want to have to argue with those of us on both sides who do care. And because they are competent and trustworthy in their work and areas of expertise, they do not question that those providing theses websites and reporting their news are also trustworthy.
Nor is this in any way a matter of intelligence or education. Back before the internet was used for much more than email, a dear friend of mine, with a BA in journalism and an MBA, who had been the marketing VP for the largest hospital complex in Los Angeles before settling down with husband and child to fill her spare time by masterfully running all the local charities that appealed to her, once explained to me that she never read the front section of the newspaper because there was nothing in it that she could impact. I was shocked — I generally avoid everything beyond the front section because anything I need to know about local events I’ll hear from my local friends, so I needn’t bother, whereas news about national and international events will inform me whether I need to worry about Mr. Wife as his work takes him through it all.
But low information users are easily led to chosen conclusions by sites which curate what information they are exposed to, as workers at Facebook, et al have been caught admitting to doing — a fact we high information users are aware of, but which the others have been protected from knowing. And so millions of high information users have indeed been migrating away from those controllers to sites that offer similar services without that curation, leaving a billion or so Facebook users like Mrs. Bobby who do not know that they have been manipulated.
Project Veritas has a collection of undercover videos from various popular sites boasting of how they manipulate their users and control those who would think and speak beyond their bounds. Go to https://www.projectveritas.com/ and scroll down, European Conservative. |
[AE] Others have been writing in that they have now censored Pat Buchanan as well. It seems that anyone who they dislike is being censored. President Trump has come out against Twitter saying their censoring of Republican lawmakers is now creating a matter of national security. He has ample grounds to arrest Dorsey — NOW! Section 230 cannot overrule the Constitution. It is unconstitutional and he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.