{"id":500,"date":"2023-01-21T21:14:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T02:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2023-01-21T21:14:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T02:14:12","slug":"cory-doctorow-on-tiktok-and-social-media-in-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Cory Doctorow on TikTok and social media in general"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2023\/01\/21\/potemkin-ai\/#hey-guys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2023\/01\/21\/potemkin-ai\/#hey-guys<\/a><br><br>For someone who is not on the inside of any social media companies, this was very educational.  I&#8217;ve avoided TikTok &#8211; not out of any particular compuction to avoid it, just that I don&#8217;t care enough to be exposed to endless 30 seconds blurbs.<br><br>It also explains the behavior of other social media companies.<br><br>Long, but good, read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2023\/01\/21\/potemkin-ai\/#hey-guys For someone who is not on the inside of any social media companies, this was very educational. I&#8217;ve avoided TikTok &#8211; not out of any particular compuction to avoid it, just that I don&#8217;t care enough to be exposed to endless 30 seconds blurbs. It also explains the behavior of other social media companies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}