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The only remedy: Stop watching and reading what they dish up. All those 'made for TV' sitcoms are just there to dumb you down anyway. The 'special effects' and AI-generated stuff is doing the same. Only read printed books from before 2020. Just some easy ways to reduce the profits from AI generated content. Soon those billionaires will turn their back on AI and some won't be that rich anymore.

@georgetakei spot on, time to tax the rich till the pip squeaks.

@georgetakei That's why I read AP news and Propublica. MSM is dead and I only watch long enough for the weather report.

@georgetakei Who is going to own Tiktok?

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I will have to correct this, because the richest man in the world is President of the biggest country in the world and he is playing all the other ones mentioned like puppets on a string, either directly or through others

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The Problem is that people read/use it, Not the people who own it.

@georgetakei See the Problem? I did and stopped consuming this stuff. Just quit.

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Time to leave those sites/Apps, mister Rich, eh.. Reich😉

@georgetakei the richest man owns X twitter

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and regarding EA Games:
… what new generations play …

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That and every other detail about our lives, right down to what we ate for breakfast & how much on June 13, 2025 - and every morning thereafter.

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I left X, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, but use Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp on a limited basis, The only reason I still have any connection to Disney or Paramount is Star Wars and Star Trek. I have never had an account with WaPo, and if linked to it, I close it right away. Add Fox to the list as long ago as when they cancelled Firefly. I still hang around with CW in hopes of a Babylon 5 reboot

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Brainwashing all the way.

@georgetakei we need to start pamphlet drops in the reddest areas of the country. Pamphlets with real news instead of propaganda.

@georgetakei that's what the radical left (anarchists and communists) denounce since ever.

@georgetakei meanwhile in Australia Rupert Murdoch owns all the media worth beans and has done since he took over from his dad. That empire has been oligarchic since it was founded.

Luckily we deported him to the USA and nothing bad has happened since. /s

@georgetakei That is why we have fediverse !

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Nope… I don’t see a problem at all as I don’t subscribe to any of them.

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Facebook banned me with no right of appeal & I assume being a fervent supporter of Scottish Independence + frequent rubbishing of unionist comments had much to do with it. So to conclude that MZ supports UK as it is my take. Why? Capitalism, end of.

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All those "media" wouldn't be worth a penny if we stopped using them.
Problem solved.

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George, you have thoughtfully added alt text to this post. But Mr. Reich's own posts here on Mastodon never add alt text. That's odd because his posts are often just screencaps of his text items on Bluesky.

He's had this pointed out to him on Mastodon several times. He never even replies. So, today, I unfollowed him.

Robert Reich can ignore me. But maybe he won't ignore George Takei.

Please say something to him.

@georgetakei That's why I'm reading this on a Mastodon instance.
Fight Fascism, Federate !