I agree. The issue with social media isn't the tech, its the people and its power structures forming over social networks.
This whole thing, social media, derives from 2 types of issues: Errors/Flaws in natural thinking, and malignant hacking of brains.
The second will always arise when you have more than 100 people in a group, and said group has some non trivial impact on voting patterns.
At that point, this group is like a unprotected bank account - which will be hacked.
The normal response is to protect this account and to target hackers - but current social thought (excluding China) has huge issues when it comes to censoring speech - and especially political speech.
Add to it layers of additional complexity, (political parties can abuse the laws and say they are being unfairly censored), and the distance between this solution and the underlying human problems seems equidistant as that of current Social media and the same problems.
This whole thing, social media, derives from 2 types of issues: Errors/Flaws in natural thinking, and malignant hacking of brains.
The second will always arise when you have more than 100 people in a group, and said group has some non trivial impact on voting patterns.
At that point, this group is like a unprotected bank account - which will be hacked.
The normal response is to protect this account and to target hackers - but current social thought (excluding China) has huge issues when it comes to censoring speech - and especially political speech.
Add to it layers of additional complexity, (political parties can abuse the laws and say they are being unfairly censored), and the distance between this solution and the underlying human problems seems equidistant as that of current Social media and the same problems.