@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @judgedread

> kinda shocked that everyone forgot about this

Especially given the paper by Facebook researchers about "emotional contagion" that had a study period that overlapped with Kony2012. I'm pretty sure this was a hugely successful psyop experiment.

> The idea that all of social media is a giant trap to make people rabidly and temporarily like/hate certain things is interesting, and being forcibly isolated from it may have made my life far better.

I don't think it's an organic push by normies demanding the Mall Internet, right, I think if you had TV/radio as a propaganda channel all these decades and suddenly people care about the web, maybe you push things that direction. Glowies that were used to being able to just phone up Facebook and get information started shitting themselves over E2EE. "We're going dark!" They don't wanna lose a thing they had.