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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The big picture: Zuckerberg said that a "new class of creators" — social media users — should "become the new kind of cultural elites."

In other words: The uneducated mediocre should become the cultural elite.

See point 11 of The 14 Characteristics of Fascism.

[–] WhatAmLemmy 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

America has arguably been most of those for most of its existence, so it's always been proto-fascist. Now it's just fascist.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Agreed. That doesn't make it any less scary though.