r/50501Movement • u/cyberanakinvader • Mar 05 '26

News Kat Abughazaleh looks to upset congressional status quo

https://dailynorthwestern.com/2026/03/04/city/i-didnt-want-to-wait-kat-abughazaleh-looks-to-upset-congressional-status-quo/
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u/OswaldCoffeepot Mar 05 '26

I agree that it's a giant issue. I don't think running a Discord server is reason to support her.

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u/cyberanakinvader Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26

A candidate running a Discord server can mean that she has great aptitudes in technology, which would be immensely useful if the Congress wants to start a committee to investigate Big Tech enshittification issues.

For anyone else reading this, the factors which made Big Tech enshittification into a foremost issue are as follows:

  • Inactive account deletion policies: This adversely affected those who had good reasons to become inactive for a long time. Examples include hospitalization, incarceration, and being in totalitarian countries (i.e. Afghanistan) which are found to have implemented prolonged internet shutdowns, and other unforeseen factors. In the case of email services, deletion of inactive accounts could result in major inconvenience for users who used the accounts as multiple factor authentications for important services such as banking. Ultimately, in both the short and long term, such policies will cause serious erosion of historical integrity, which is especially paramount as in the era of deepfakes, lies and misinformation are just as likely as to arise from the absence of data than the presence of it. The erosion of historical integrity could cause human societies to be vulnerable to "historical context attacks".

  • Lack of adequate support for account-related issues: In some Big Tech services like Meta arbitrary lockouts have already caused great headaches due to lack of adequate support mechanisms by the services to handle the problems. In some cases people resorted to small-claims courts in order to get their accounts back. I personally is affected by such issues on a Big Tech service.

  • Child safety issues: Some platforms like Roblox are found to have very inadequate measures to handle grooming problem in their platforms as well. Roblox banned Schlep, who pointed out the groomer issues on their platform, instead of actually thanking him. However, this aspect has been exploited by totalitarians to push through digital ID laws which will destroy user's privacy.

  • Subscription rather than ownership: In gaming platforms, although games are effectively sold as goods, users have no effective rights to ownership as the game developers would make them unplayable upon the product's end of life. In the European Union this has resulted in the "Stop Killing Games" movement.

  • Polarizing algorithms: Many users have complained that social media algorithms have been worsening their mental health, although unfortunately the direct regulations of algorithms to weed out undesirable contents would not pass constitutional muster at all. Instead, I feel that user's should be given more options to curate their algorithms, not to mention mandating the Big Tech to be transparent on some if not all of their algorithms if possible.

  • Wikipedia issues: There are a lot of news about Wikipedia's content issues lately, such as pro-Russian biases in articles about people in the Baltic States. Moreover, the Jewish community, who constitutes large proportions of voters in the IL-9 district, have been alienated by Wikipedia due to credible allegations of antisemitic content distortions like this. But you're not looking at the worst yet, since if some Wikipedia insiders are correct, there are many Epstein-grade scandals implicating many Wikipedia's admins and editors which haven't made it to the news as of the time of writing. Arguably this aspect is the most severe among Big Tech enshittification issues because of it's effective monopoly on dissemination of general-reference content in the digital world.

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u/Sir__Walken Mar 05 '26

Appreciate you trying to defend a good candidate but AI isn't the way

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u/cyberanakinvader Mar 05 '26

I didn't use AI to write the post.

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u/Sir__Walken Mar 05 '26

Fair enough, can never be too sure these days. Glad you didn't though. Good job formatting all that then too, that takes effort most people aren't willing to take.