Is Facebook Making Us Less Free?

Digital oligopolies currently hold too much power.

Imagine the position of women in relation to their men in a society where husbands have legal power over their wives: the power, for example, to determine where they may appear in public, who they may associate with, what church they may attend, and so on. And now imagine a woman whose husband dotes on her, as Torvald dotes on Nora in Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House, giving her carte blanche: allowing her, in effect, to act as she wills within the range, intuitively, of personal liberty.

Does Nora free enjoy freedom of choice in that domain, thanks to Torvald’s indulgence?

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michael hammond 14 June 2021

I would think there's also a large market for pharmacy interactions that are completely automated. Many people would be much more comfortable talking about potentially embarrassing personal medical information with a machine than with another person.
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yes but also no bubble shooter
Facebook allow people to post everything on their walls but also control their words, which mean we cannot express our real emotions anymore. we have to show it in a polite way, and somehow they can access to your profile and steal your personal information.

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kyoung21b 18 September 2017

Important points and only fitting in this day and age (and given the indirect allusion to Orwell here) that the most prominent slogan of one of the greatest potential evils facing humanity is "do no evil".