Move Fast and Regulate Things

March 19, 2019

By NZB3

Lynley Hood¹: “If you’re wondering why our government, our Internet bosses & our advertisers are speaking out about the role of Facebook in the Christchurch tragedy…”

“The Web has become critical to all of our lives as well as the world economy, and yet the decisions on how it is designed have never been voted upon by anyone.” – Move Fast and Break Things, Jonathan Taplin (2017)

Actually, it was a pure form of direct democracy which we voted on with our ‘feet’. A far more representative election than any held by any government with their ‘suggestion box’ ballot boxes followed by coalition scrambles and un-mandated policies…broken promises…

It’s enough to make you want to ditch the lot of them; Be an Anarchist.

Taplin’s gripe is that our society isn’t statist enough. Decisions and democracy are not being regulated by a governmental elite enough. Choices of what to consume or build are not being dictated to by commissars or controlled by politicians! Oh no!

Our government, our Internet bosses & our advertisers don’t trust the people to be free. Now they’ll get away with taking more control while the going is good; While people are stunned. Another of the murderer’s dominoes falls, this is what he meant to happen!

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1 Hood, author of the finest book on moral panic ever written about Christchurch or New Zealand: A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case (2001)

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