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The society works on the principle of give and take, or the exchange of information. If I want to buy a burger, I have to find a way to communicate with the employee, usually by talking. The Internet, originally, was not designed with talking in mind; instead, once I can establish a connection to another endpoint, I exchange the information, "handshake", "authentication", etc, but they were standardized into formal signals, not by talking.
If one exposed to the early Internet, formal codes are what be intriguing and drive them engaged with the Internet, one doesn't have to communicate with the people, like they can buy an item just by clicking at buttons on an online commercial site.
But social network has changed the way the Internet used to be. It is the platform where people ask in order to receive something in exchange using irreproducible mothods of small talk, and it is actually encourage. People are ask to behave like human to verify their identity to enter the social platform. People are asked to confirm their identity in case they forget their login account by showing who they are (really, showing your selfie and ID card). And people talk a lot on video and livestream to convince people to hit the like button, so they can become viral, algorithmically.
To be clear, I don't have problem with people moving in and establish their norm. But this culture is the core reason for big corps and governments to invade the privacy for every users, including small group of people, not because of anything but merely because you communicate. You must know that big corps and governments have been exist since the beginning of mankind and they have invade people's privacy for millenia. But in the early of the Internet era, the net is seen as a toy for weird people and big corps pay no attention to it, and no one was prepared for an invasion of privacy. People still use the Internet like it was invented yesterday, no one was aware it is being fingerprinted. Until too late, thye realize the Internet is now occupied by mostly normies, and they give and take, ask and receive, communicate, all of that give a forseeable opportuinity for big corps and government to establish systems and mechanism of fingerprinting everyone connect to the net. People invade the Internet, and big factions invade them after that.
We can't blame people, but that is exhausting, and the only thing we - small group of people - can do is to forfeit, to let go of the whole Internet to the people and their factions, big corps, and governments constantly spying on them. We need a place where the sun won't shine, the big factions won't have any interest in spying and think that it is a mere toy, be it a chat room, the darknet, or alien protocol like gemini and gopher.