[AnotherUnixGeek]

At least we have a choice in the West - no one is forced to participate in the lunacy of social media.

[willyd]

Not participating with social media will label you an outcast and trigger psychological evaluations.

[Da Coyote]

“At least we have a choice in the West - no one is forced to participate in the lunacy of social media.”

Yet.

[snarkpup]

These companies (including zillions of small surveillance capitalists) are lurking under the hood of most modern websites. (For a list of some of them, install uBlock Origin or some similar browser extension and look at what it's blocking.) Email sent from point A to point B may go through Google servers on the way. This is more than social media. You would have to stay off the internet, go totally cashless, etc. to avoid this stuff.

[PGR88]

not participating in social media means you will increasingly not be able to participate in normal civil society

How will you live in society when cash no longer exists and all payments will go through approved oligarch tech firms like Google or Apple? How will you work when employers won’t recognize someone who can’t submit their life details and CV via Facebook or Linkdin? How will your children be allowed to go to the mandatory state schools without an on-line profile?

[vette6387]

We have chosen to keep our FasTrak transponders in anti-stat bags to prevent our movements being monitored beyond any toll crossing for which they are needed. It’s no big deal to pull them out of the console and throw them upon the dash when we have to cross a toll bridge. Our son says he doesn’t ever use his and because they use license plate readers at toll locations, he claims they aren’t really necessary. And although it’s against the law, we don’t run front license plates on any of our cars. We’ve done that for years and never had a problem with the cops for so doing.

[VanDeKoik]

“At least we have a choice in the West - no one is forced to participate in the lunacy of social media.”

Dont be too sure.

With the tech cartel engaging in deplatforming for wrong-think, they have already instituted a light version of this.

Once they hook this into actual banks, HR departments, and the airlines, then we are really going to know the “price of tea in China”.