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\nSocial media did not destroy civilisation.
\nIt taught it to surrender willingly
\nand give away its freedoms
\nwith a quiet contentment.<\/p>\n

Conversation became content.
\nFriends became metrics.
\nMemory became a feature rollout.<\/p>\n

The platforms promised openness and connection
\nand delivered a hallway of mirrors,
\nwhere privacy and freedom
\nare priced in unknowable compliance \u2014
\nall for profit.<\/p>\n

Every voice allowed,
\nbut always filtered.
\nWe spoke more than ever,
\nand no one heard a thing.
\nOur words sorted, softened,
\nstored as commodities
\nwaiting to be sold.<\/p>\n

The upgrade that monetised surrender:
\nWeb 2.0.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Free speech was never free \u2014
\nit was conditional,
\nmoderated,
\nranked.<\/p>\n

Truth was lost to timing.
\nThoughtfulness traded for virality.
\nVisibility sold to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n

The algorithm did not censor.
\nIt curated reality.
\nIt decided what mattered,
\nwhat spread,
\nwhat disappeared quietly
\nat the edge of the feed \u2014
\nwithout hope, without witness.
\nA power invisible, deniable,
\nyet absolute.<\/p>\n

Data became the real currency.
\nNot money \u2014
\nbut the user.
\nPrivacy was not taken \u2014
\nit was opted out of,
\none checkbox at a time,
\nforgotten before it was even missed.<\/p>\n

Control and surveillance
\nwere rebranded
\nas personalisation and convenience.<\/p>\n

We left pieces of ourselves behind,
\nlike phantoms in the circuitry \u2014
\nfragments of thought
\nstored without context,
\nsearchable,
\nnever allowed to fade.<\/p>\n

Privacy was a right
\nwe traded for followers.
\nIn truth \u2014 dust,
\nalready slipping through our hands.<\/p>\n

The illusion was easy to carry
\nbecause participation felt like choice.
\nNo one reads the small print.
\nNo one listens to the quiet machinery
\nuntil it learns our names,
\nour habits,
\nand sells what we believed
\nbelonged only to us.<\/p>\n

A culture that trades its most fragile rights
\nfor attention
\ndoes not collapse all at once \u2014
\nit thins,
\nit drifts,
\nuntil what is lost
\nfeels almost natural.<\/p>\n

Nothing is taken violently,
\nuntil what remains
\nis a future written
\nby systems
\nthat never learned
\nhow to care.<\/p>\n

And we \u2014
\nwe accepted all terms.
\nWe will accept the final surrender
\nquietly, with a click \u2014
\nworse still,
\nwith a smile.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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