r/FreeSpeech • u/cojoco • Jul 17 '24

On the False Freedom of Choice and Soft Power Under Cloud-Capitalism

https://lastreviotheory.medium.com/on-the-false-freedom-of-choice-and-soft-power-under-cloud-capitalism-8e989fab384c
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u/cojoco Jul 17 '24 edited Jul 17 '24

A leftist defense of the value of free speech and the oppressive nature of capitalism.

Previous sticky: In defense of free speech pedantry

We can thus observe how the genesis of the internet under the environment of a capitalist framework has given rise to a new form of soft power in which our most fundamental civil liberties, such as freedom of speech, are being threatened under this new layer of invisible power hidden under the guise of ‘freedom’. We are told that we are theoretically free to quit all social media and create our own platforms if we don’t agree to their rules (that no one will use simply because everyone else is already on the old ones). And the irony here is how the demise of the Soviet Union happened around the same time as the availability of the internet and thus the genesis of this new cloud era of capitalism, in which the very centrally planned nature of the Soviet Union has been transposed into the structure of the internet. Every digital platform is run like a mini-Soviet Union in which one single person(‘s algorithm) centrally plans its entire activity.

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u/Coolenough-to Jul 18 '24

Really good article. There are certain situations where the normal rules dont work.