Somehow the overwhelming majority of the online social media market of the entire world has become concentrated into the platforms of a small handful of megacorporations, almost all of which are headquartered at and owned by people living in a very small area, within one single state in the United States, and the majority of who hold the same rather extreme sociopolitical and cultural views.
These social media platforms often have liberally billions of users, which is a very significant portion of the population of the entire world. More and more of these corporations are enforcing their political views onto their users. They are sanctioning and banning people for the smallest of slights, like calling a man a woman.
These corporations do not care what the local culture of their users is. They do not care where their users are from, what the social norms in their society is, or what their sociopolitical or religious views are. These corporations are enforcing a very narrow set of political views onto their users, punishing those who do not conform to it, regardless of context, regardless of the user's own society and culture. They do not care, for example, what the sociopolitical and cultural gender roles in the society of the user are, or what the culture of that user believes.
This is cultural imperialism. It's enforcing particular, very narrow, and rather extremist cultural norms onto the entire world, abusing their position of power. This is, in essence, not much different from Britain imposing their own cultural norms onto other cultures via force in the 1700's and 1800's, completely disregarding local culture, norms and beliefs.
These social media platforms often have liberally billions of users, which is a very significant portion of the population of the entire world. More and more of these corporations are enforcing their political views onto their users. They are sanctioning and banning people for the smallest of slights, like calling a man a woman.
These corporations do not care what the local culture of their users is. They do not care where their users are from, what the social norms in their society is, or what their sociopolitical or religious views are. These corporations are enforcing a very narrow set of political views onto their users, punishing those who do not conform to it, regardless of context, regardless of the user's own society and culture. They do not care, for example, what the sociopolitical and cultural gender roles in the society of the user are, or what the culture of that user believes.
This is cultural imperialism. It's enforcing particular, very narrow, and rather extremist cultural norms onto the entire world, abusing their position of power. This is, in essence, not much different from Britain imposing their own cultural norms onto other cultures via force in the 1700's and 1800's, completely disregarding local culture, norms and beliefs.
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