Social media gives us a dangerous illusion of a public space that we (rightly) feel has been lost. But the…

Social media gives us a dangerous illusion of a public space that we (rightly) feel has been lost. But the public we lost wasn’t random people talking to each other. It was those random people living peaceful and prosperous lives, delegating responsibility to the…/1

…institutional framework of society, to keep everything running. Expertise across every area of life, guiding and building. Now replaced with mass stupidity, mobilised by social media led by influencers, using popularity as the only currency. Social media companies…/2

…themselves, like the IT industry they grew from, express this libertarian philosophy openly. The explosion of cybercrime is just another symptom. IT and social media are the way the political libertarians, often from the US, remade the world in their own image. 3/3