AnnaRawhitiConnell

"The documentation suggests that [ZuckerBorg and SandBorg] were willing to run FaceBook in China as a government surveillance network. That they would give the Chinese government access to user's data."

#AnnaRawhitiConnell, 2025

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/01-04-2025/the-fold-careless-people-adolescence-and-where-meta-is-at

Why wouldn't they? As many of us always suspected and Edward Snowdon's leaks confirmed, that's exactly what they do for the US government.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-5/edward-snowden-discloses-u-s-government-operations

"The thing to think about with Google is that it's not just ... search, for most people it's also their email platform - like GMail - and if you have an Android phone it's your operating system, so it's essentially the internet."

#AnnaRawhitiConnell, 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=5f3bdcc7-412a-42c8-a7ed-255cdf34a453

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"I think social media now is sort of all-consuming for a lot of people... we should probably all understand by now that there are components of social media, which are... akin to any form of addictive substance. That they are designed to get you to keep on coming back, and deliver a little hit of something, whether it's... dopamine, or... just an ego boost."

#AnnaRawhitiConnell, 2023

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018898243/social-media-s-new-revolution