Dave The Web Guy
Facebook As the Placebook
05/25/2020
I decided to click the little exclamation point for "More Website Information" that Facebook now includes with most feed posts, next to one of my own recent posts.
In the event you actually wonder if Hillary runs a pedophile ring, click the exclamation point.
The idea of this new information system is so that Facebook can give the average clicker an idea of a website's validity and integrity, a system largely developed in wake of attempts by foreign state competitors attempting to influence the outcome of elections by taking advantage our nation's low barrier information exchange systems (read: the web, social media). You may recognize that effort covered in the mainstream media as "Russian Interference".
Why Facebook thinks that people who are actually brain-numb enough to believe Hillary Clinton runs a pedophila ring in the basement of pizza parlors would be inquisitive enough to try and understand the integrity of a given source publishing that information is beyond me. People who "believe" and share that type of information are more than likely doing it out of personal satire, not because they actually believe it.
I actually think I do know: Social media giants and the mainstream media both need you to believe that people are that stupid because it then permits them to introduce yet more controls and more instruments to track human inquisitiveness, while maybe driving a political or social agenda in the process. Instruments such as the button under discussion that allows you to review "more information" about a given post, for example.
When I clicked on the one for my post, linking back to my website, I chuckled over the clinical assessment at first. But gaffed when I saw this:
Dwghosting doesn't have a Facebook page, oh no!
Facebook, in the authorative presentation of a risk assessment agent, was pointing out that my hosting company, Dave the Web Guy Innovations, does not have a Facebook page. The implication being that my content potentially threatens western democracy.
Holy smokes!
Well I guess as owner operator of Dave the Web Guy Innovations and its functional subsidary Dave the Web Guy Hosting, I better start one up! Get it going. Get my presence branded and restore Facebook's version of "trust it" about me, to the world.
If I really want to stand apart, to really show my authentic export to the world, I best also buy up some ad impressions and what not. After all, if I'm not buying ad space, maybe I'm just a con going through the trouble to make a Facebook page to beat this incriminating designation as a "non-Facebook-page" owner. Oh no! Facebook: Shutup and take my money! Vindicate me! Approve me!
So basically, Facebook, as part of its undeclared strategy to replace the World Wide Web with its own monetizing version of it, is casting fear and distrust of any digital stage built outside it.
By Dave for Personal Blog.
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What I love is the liberals are being told to hate Facebook. Check out this rant from Joe from Morning Joe:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/morning-joe-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-extremism-a9571181.html
Actually sorry, this link is better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-hDNNn49zU
Well, he seems pissed!
But arguments like his are the trend. Now that everyone has been migrated off the open web and corralled into social media "places", the next step is to find a control handle to regulate the speech that occurs within. It seems everyone all around the table is trying to find a way to undo the surge of unchecked information and perspective exchange between people.
Yet ironically I believe in tight moderation as host of, say, this very blog. But my little blog and other people's little blogs are not the same as social media streams that connect the population at large like Twitter or Facebook. The whole conundrum is forcing me to see the digital world in stratospheres where the rules that do not fit one level are suitable for another.
