Welcome to the technocratic version of the U.S Constitution online. Americans are witness to the subjugation and superseding of the fourth estate(journalism). Standing down independent voice by de-platforming authors has become standard practice online. Algorithms search a broad category of material in slash and burn weeding of offensive speech, words or events which leads to fascist cancel culture.
The embedded engineering corporations are platforming on their applications, operating systems and expanding control of more than their business into the private lives of its customers, users and people’s behavior is emerging as a viral threat to a way of life. Harmless does not describe the silencing of voice, invasion of privacy and loss of freewill taken by censor, cancel or dissociative social engineering.
Governance, authority, protection and service functions of liberal western democracy have withered over time, shirked responsibility and corrupted in self-serving capacities to reach this point. The point that it sees technological governance is its only future choice if liberal ideals of democracy have any hope to survive. They must join the transition to be present in the everyday lives of people, meet them on their terms and in the manner they choose to transact their lives to be relevant.
If you can’t beat’em – join’em and passing the baton of democracy has begun. Silicon Valley is the seat of power. Silicon holds the keys to the kingdom. Technology is not the new “plastics” its the new form of world politics.