ConTheLibrarian@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•French government could cut off social media during unrest, says MacronEnglish
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1 year agoFrench Revolution: May 5, 1789 – Nov 9, 1799
Turning off the internet/social-media will only throw gas on the fire grease on the guillotine me thinks.
We need enough people to agree on both a vehicle and a direction.
There are a lot of people dissatisfied with the current government(s) but don’t agree how to create change; be it through the current system, major modifications to the current system, or even more severe changes.
There are a lot of people who don’t want wide spread poverty/suffering, but don’t agree on how that problem should be dealt with; be it through universal income, massive public projects, or wealth taxation and better competition regulations.
IMO we need a new digital/decentralized/open-source/transparent ‘social media platform’ that can replace the current easily manipulated electoral systems.
We need ideas & policies to be independently actionable from the partisan politics that afaic specifically exist to mitigate change and maintain the influence of money in policy.