Whoever wins the Meta trial, the masses will remain willing slaves

The fight between social media and political authorities is really about one thing: who keeps the power of shaping a decaying society? On August 18, a federal trial opened in the US, organized by a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general against Meta. Twenty-nine states brought the lawsuit – represented by California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey at the trial. They consider that the company’s social media platforms, which they claim hook users, harvest their data, and hide their methods, are addictive to children and harm their mental health.While this particular trial concerns only Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube are also targeted, while Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, and many others have already been summoned to testify to Congress. And again, let’s not forget the European Union's Digital Service Act and the showdown between Elon Musk and former European commissar Thierry Breton about X’s content moderation. Regulation of social platforms is strengthening everywhere. The arguments are always the same: companies shouldn’t be above the truth or the law, there’s a crucial need to ban “hate speech,” protect our children from pedophilia and psychological disorders...