Comment by lemming
3 months ago
Of course it's a chance to rethink the internet. COVID was also a chance to rethink our responses to pandemics. Cambridge Analytica was a chance to rethink data privacy as it relates to private companies. Edward Snowden was a chance to rethink data privacy as it relates to governments. Climate Change is a chance to rethink how we live our lives, build our cities, and produce our food. In my hometown, an earthquake was a chance to rethink how the city worked.
Life is full of these chances, but we seldom take them. Whatever happens with TikTok, it'll be business as usual in no time.
Counterexample: 9/11 (11th september 2001). This changed so many things for the worse. More government surveillance. More security theater. More racism/distrust against people who looks like muslims. And the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have left their traces as well.
> Counterexample: 9/11 (11th september 2001). This changed so many things for the worse.
For the worse ? It was the perfect event to push surveillance and military spendings.
Only for the worse if you aren't a defense contractor.
We are in a Ghostbusters world, the options we have are just to choose the form of our destructor.