The war of the self

As we speak, a legal statement was just being published in my face, on a very large platform. That platform is the messenger choice on instagram, and on facebook, and some other choices that come with it. Stuff like face recognition and such. I, for example, could not send a christmas greeting to my cousin Amy on instagram, due to some law that was right there in my face without further explanation. You can not send this message because of a new European Law. Really aggressive. 

 So I wondered. Who wrote that law? And why is this being published now? And like this? 

 And I used a search engine and found this quote in a BBC tec article on the net: „It also prohibits the interception or surveillance of communications and metadata without explicit consent from those involved.“ 

It‘s a new law about us online and it is litterally like the Nurenberg Charter that was written in 1945. It was a contract that banned experiments on people, be it their culture or otherwise, without their consent. This changed ethography and how experiments or obeservations of people are conducted today. I wonder if people are generally thinking about this? You can read the article here. 

If you disect it you‘ll see that there is a lot to think about. Facebook just changed it‘s „social security“ number, and the names of some divisions. It seems that they are desperatly trying to hold onto it‘s/our data. 

The question is, will some kind of a new European Legal War, start because of our personal data collections that have been going on for a decade or more? Could we possibly be better off by selling our data ourselves? Earn tokens. Like in an episode of Black Mirror. Or? 

How far does this European law pass? It has reached Iceland, that is for sure. I couldn‘t send my cousin Amy a greeting (good timing, christmas eve). You know this is serious don't you.

Some people in Europe are blocking a conversation between me and my cousin wich proves that they have the power to decide what we talk about wich brings us again to another big problem.

 And there are people, working a full time job, for Facebook obeing some kind of a modesty rule. No breasts, no breastfeeding, no bodys and such. So it litterally logs everything we say, all the nude pictures we try to send, and then they ban the stuff that isn‘t modest according to their modesty policy. Meanwhile, they, litterally offended little homies in every corner of the world, filing your secrets. Clever, right? Facebook is like a slippery eel. A drug lord called Loki. Dealing a strange potion. The world seems blinded by it‘s promise of a good identity, "fit in n'feel good" vibe, like in a Capimunist Disney World Denial (it‘s a new diagnosis CDWD), somehow not seeing it, or always forgiving it, because you love (or hate) what it does to your fragile self image. The kick you get from the approval of others. You love the likes and the hearts it gives to you. They up your dopamin levels. Dopeamine it's a great hormone that gives us a temporary good feeling. Like from running or dancing or... So you check in every day, every morning, every evening, over and over during the day. Same with Instagram. And you think that nothing happens ? Really?

We have been doing this for about fourteen or fifteen years now. We have part taken in a huge social identiy experiment, completely without knowing it. And just now, Google threw a cookie contract at me.