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Debra M's avatar

Excellent article, Fred I sure recognize your description of what we are facing online today! Grateful I was born and raised before the internet because I still have the capacity to think for myself and recognize a lot of the noise — ok, I prefer to say bullshite!

On a side note, it will be interesting to see what transpires with France investigating that stinking Elon Musk.

Fred Ferguson (GeezerWise)'s avatar

Debra, you nailed it.

Those of us who grew up pre-internet still have a built-in BS detector.

We learned to read faces… tone… body language… not just glowing rectangles.

So when a thousand fake accounts suddenly “rage” in perfect unison, it smells off immediately.

Most younger folks don’t even realize half the crowd they’re arguing with isn’t human.

It’s like getting into a shouting match with a vending machine.

And yeah… watching Elon Musk get side-eyed by France is going to be interesting.

Governments are finally waking up to the fact that a handful of tech moguls basically control the world’s conversation.

That’s not “free speech.”

That’s a privately owned megaphone.

About time somebody started asking hard questions.

Appreciate you being here... and keeping that old-school common sense alive. 👍