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and, i'm actually in full agreement with the president up to this point.



this is where he loses me.

if big brother edits my post, does that mean he now owns it? all of a sudden, this seems less like it's about free speech and more like it's actually a power grab by the tech companies.

i must interject - google did not create this content. this is my content. dammit.



ok, i agree with this, entirely.

but, how do we get from this valid concern to the conclusion that google and facebook (and bandcamp?) now own my content?

i'm going to continue this in a new post - but you see what my concern is.

the internet is not like a factory. i'm not an employee of the sites i post to, and i'm not contributing to a product that is being produced by these sites, in the end. i know that americans have a hard time understanding what "socialism" means, but social media doesn't have much to do with socialization in production.

this needs a marxist deconstruction, because it's looking a lot like a 21st century analogue to the appropriation of labour that happened in the industrial revolution, without any of the logic underlying it.

this is still my product. i still made this. and, if google is going to be given property rights (and responsibilities.) over it, that's just an example of how property is theft.

but, this is still capitalism. we had to expect this, right?

section 2 forthcoming.

(executive order here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/)