The biggest trolls in the world are also the richest. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp fame and Elon Musk of Tesla fame are trolling us online and we shouldn’t let them get away with it. Zuckerberg trolls us by censoring what we see and selecting what propaganda enters our screens, other tech giants do the same. Musk, on the other hand, trolls us by getting leagues of fanboys to defend his union-busting, tax avoiding, and questionable health practices. Let’s be clear: the billionaires who are troll like this are doing it for their own profit at our expense.
Don’t feed the trolls, feed your mind. Here are some tips to eliminate billionaire trolls from your news.
Thankfully some tools are still leaving you in control:
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Blogs are still out there. I had 50,000 visitors last month. You can still use RSS readers. You can subscribe to blogs like mine by email.
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I have recently discovered the fantastic substack community.
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Telegram is pretty decent as a secured news aggregator. My blog has a telegram channel. Nobody needs to know what you are reading.
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Twitter has a hidden feature (twitter list) which lets you subscribe to specific individuals and only see content from these individuals.
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DuckDuckGo is a fantastic search engine which mostly gives me what I am looking for instead of what it thinks I should find.