Technofascism
third-bit.com59 points by speckx 3 hours ago
59 points by speckx 3 hours ago
TESCREAL reads like a right-wing Posadism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_International–Posadist
Like Posadism, the future refusing to cooperate will burn them out along the way.
> These politics do not stay inside the United States. In Brazil in 2022 and 2023, Musk’s platform X amplified supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro before and after an election Bolsonaro lost. When the Brazilian Supreme Court ordered X to block accounts that were inciting violence and spreading disinformation, Musk refused.
> In India, Meta’s platforms have amplifyied Hindu nationalist content that incites violence against Muslim communities, while consistently applying content moderation more aggressively to criticism of the governing BJP party than to nationalist propaganda.
If you think this type of interference is just “eccentric billionaires’ opinions about freedom of speech”… it isn’t.
This is the exact modus operandi of the cold war era of causing turmoil on countries at the periphery of capitalism, only now executed by a state captured by techno plutocrats and amplified by the use of social media.
Nations that fall for the freedom of speech rhetoric (instead of state censorship like China) will get ripped apart from the inside, stripped of its resources and not have a seat at the negotiating table.
This may be a nit or it may be something deeper, but I think you've jumped the rails when you attempt to associate Hindu nationalism with TESCREAL. Hindu nationalism is a much bigger (and older) phenomenon than anything happening in SFBA.
> In Zero to One, Thiel argued that competition is for losers and that the goal of a startup is to create a monopoly.
Way to not understand what Thiel meant.
You're being downvoted but you're right. I won't defend Thiel in general but that particular point is a bit taken out of context.
There's a talk somewhere ont the internet where he explains that you don't want to build a do-it-all product, at least not right away. Don't compete with everyone for everything. Find a more niche market where you can have a monopoly, get comfortable, then you branch out, diversity, and tackle broader markets.
Business and democracy have had an uneasy relationship for a while now. It's not just due to technology.
Technology is an amplifier, of course, as it always is.
A functional democracy requires peace, prosperity, and well disseminated truth!
> decimated
I feel like you mean disseminated, but truth today feels, at the very best, decimated.
Always a yawn when someone is too wet behind the ears to see the two sides of the same coin. This has been going on since I've been alive to witness it.