Not loaded. Honest question. Technology is my bread and butter. Trying to get a pulse check on whether people are generally uncomfortable with the control big tech has on communications before I start sharing my concerns in a professional setting.
If you do that, have FU money. He who tells the truth must keep a foot in the stirrup.
Yes, I'm absolutely concerned with tech censorship and control. I'm infuriated by many of their foreign labor practices. Too bad I'm in deep already. I Bought an iPhone before all this started and will migrate off it in the next generation to a flip phone and a tablet I configure with some sort of chat app and VOIP system. Communication was better in the 90s in the sense that we all communicated better then.
Ultimately, Big Tech is waging a war on its own customers. They'd like to believe that the war will be confined to their current enemies, but wars don't work that way. They always spread and affect bystanders (collateral damage) and often previous allies. When combined with Cancel Culture (often fomented by Big Tech), this means that their customers won't be able to earn a living. Tech R&D is expensive. iPhones and other gadgets are consequently expensive. The customers who can buy these gadgets are either a) pretty rich or b) buying them on the used market.
b is contingent on
a being extremely robust and healthy.
Edit: piggy-backing onto Aruka's comments: the new social media and in-hand wireless computers (smart phones) facilitate COINTELPRO on a massive scale.