Summary
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez claimed tech billionaires are using social media to undermine democracy by exploiting algorithms to spread disinformation and manipulate society for personal agendas.
He criticized platforms for fostering division, undermining democratic processes, and concentrating power among elites.
Sánchez proposed EU regulations, including requiring digital identification for social media users and holding platform owners accountable under the Digital Services Act.
He also condemned Elon Musk and Peter Thiel for promoting reactionary and anti-democratic ideas, urging Europe to counter the “tech caste.”
Anyone seen some of the promo videos for Forever California? Nothing radicalized me more than hearing a business pitch talking about how progress is being hindered by ‘legacy systems of governance’ Hell yeah they absolutely without a doubt want to make company towns again and pitch it like a new idea and sidestep democratic governments.
He then posted it on Twitter. Instead of opening an official instance on Mastodon for official government accounts continues to generate content to enrich those it criticizes.
they’re still not understanding their personal responsibility as good government in all of this
This is so 2000 and late I mean it has been 10 years
I mean…yeah like Jaron Lanier warned about technocracy being distasteful of democracy in one half a manifesto which was published in 2000 I believe. And anyone who was on 4chan before 2016 would know about /lit/ recommends on nick land and moldbug saying nerds will be new techno philosopher kings replacing democracy with some fever dream of digital feudalism, but you could be talking about this stuff since 2000 and peoples eyes would still glaze over. It’s late? People still don’t even seem to care even though they bitch about centralized platforms. People still think you’re just over exaggerating or weird for saying social media owned by corporations is giving corporations way too much power over public discourse and culture.
Entire world: Billionaires are doing this.
Right wingers: fake news!! Wahhhh! Bias!!
Isn’t this the same guy who said we should put an end to online anonymity…?
Yeah. That party is known for finding the dumbest solutions to problems.
A year ago they wanted to make an online passport to access porn.
I doubt it’s just a party thing, he’s in the WEF, they’re all on the same agenda
You gotta have a public position and a private one, just like Hillary said. Say whatever is useful in the moment while staying on course to achieving your true intentions of obtaining more power.
They care about the tax cut only.
They also like the cheap labor and lack of regulation, but let’s be honest—all of these are about becoming richer.
Bien dicho
Spain’s a little late to the party as per usual
Go look at their track record on calling the Palestinian genocide a genocide… Spain has been impressively ahead of the curve.
At least they are at the same place like the rest of the world, just watching it happen but doing shit to prevent or fix it, much less punishing those who deserve it.
At least they showed up.
