The Social Media Revolution Will Not Happen When We Don't Care

How many sick headlines about Facebook and Twitter that will make people realize these platforms are really dangerous for the society. Facebook just recently got caught paid some of its users to gain access to their most personal data. This might sounds not malicious but and some said "Hey at least Facebook paid them!". But, unfortunately Facebook also target children and teenagers with these programs. And, God knows what else the program that Facebook implemented and we still don't know. Last year, Facebook also got caught of selling their users data to Communist China. And we also don't know what the Communist China does with your data. And don't get me started to Twitter.

The last case of Covington High School kids that got bullied in social media because of false pretense that these kids 'mocked' a Native American was so disgusting. Twitter as a main platform when the bullying started, DIDN'T ban any verified account that spew threats and hatred towards these innocent kids. Kathy Griffin, failed comedian, even asked her followers to dox these kids in her twitter. Many sick journalists with blue checkmark also piled on these kids with crazy remarks such as these kids should be punched and so on. And even after there was solid proof these kids did nothing wrong, many people with verified accounts doubles down on their dangerous remarks about the kids. While Twitter let these boys got doxxed, threatened, until their school was closed because it was became so dangerous, Twitter will ban you instantly if you criticized journalists who got fired with #learntocode meme. My God the double standard.

Btw you should follow Tim Pool in MINDS, he is one of the remaining journalist with great integrity, in my opinion.

Than Why People don't Leave These Garbage Platform?

Actually, I don't know the answers, I only can speculate. I think one of the reasons is because, our brain is wired to some kind of false sense of security. What I mean is this, when we see people getting censored even bullied to the point of dangerous shit, we as a spectator maybe will think "well, as long that doesn't happen to me, I think I will be okay". This is not new mentality, I think this is human nature, because I have seen these things in real life. One anecdotal example is, when there is a car accident in the street, many people will stop their activities just to see the accident and even record it to their social media. From 100 people in the street, I guarantee you using Pareto principal 80 are watching, and only 20 people are helping the victims.

I think this is what happen in mainstream social media. If there is some kind of controversial issues, let say some people got ban, from 100 people who active in the social media, 80 people maybe don't care about the ban or even support the ban, like what happen with Alex Jones. And only 20 people realize these bans will lead to shutdown of free expression and free speech (Tim Pool did one great video about this)