Optimizing "key performance indicators" destroys the relationship that made them appear to be worth optimizing, Optimizing apps (or web sites) for "engagement" (how much time users spend in them) tends to makes them, at very least, a persistent annoyance -- if not a tool for right-wing hatred and disinformation.

With a free/libre program, the users can exercise control and override these the decisions they don't like.

Rich Will Keep Getting Richer and 'Nothing Will Change,' Says Bernie Sanders, Unless US Leaders Have Guts to Take on Powerful Corporations.

This is why I support Sanders (and Warren): they want to do this. The other candidates shy away from it and focus on secondary issues alone.

These secondary issues may be very important too: some are matters of life and death for millions. But plutocracy is the one ring that rules all the rest.

And plutocracy will fight us as we try to fix the secondary issues, each of them one by one. We need to cripple plutocracy in order to be allowed to address other wrongs,

Right-wing Democrats joined Republicans to give the bully more money for repression at the border.

If you think about the cost of _not_ doing the Green New Deal, you see we can afford it.

The internet is increasingly a low-trust society &mdash based on an assumption of pervasive fraud. This can lead to autocracy, in this case dominion by big companies that erase freedom.

This is an additional reason to stay away from the dis-services where these frauds abound.