Have you heard of the Social Media Strike /July 4th & 5th ?

A friend just sent me a link...it seems that
A Social media strike is being proposed for July 4-5 by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger , who has created the.....

Declaration of Digital Independence
https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/declaration-of-digital-independence/

On July 4 and 5 (at least one day), people with serious grievances against social media will go on strike. .https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/social-media-strike/

I am NOT advocating for the strike 1 way or the other , I just wondered in you had heard about this..Liked the idea or were participating ?

From the Site ....

The long train of abuses we have suffered makes it our right, even our duty, to replace the old networks. To show what train of abuses we have suffered at the hands of these giant corporations, let these facts be submitted to a candid world.

" it has become abundantly clear more recently that a callous, secretive, controlling, and exploitative animus guides the centralized networks of the Internet and the corporations behind them.

They have adopted algorithms for user feeds that highlight the most controversial content, making civic discussion more emotional and irrational and making it possible for foreign powers to exercise an unmerited influence on elections globally.

They have data-mined user content and behavior in sophisticated and disturbing ways, learning sometimes more about their users than their users know about themselves; they have profited from this hidden but personal information.

They have sometimes been too ready to cooperate with despotic governments that both control information and surveil their people.

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