That quote lands very differently when you've seen the system from the inside.

When you've experienced the complete lack of recourse, respect, and accountability offered to users by social media platforms.

Whether you're harassed, doxxed, threatened, or stalked. Whether your account is compromised, hijacked, or placed under illegitimate control.

The truth is uncomfortable but simple. These platforms are not built to protect users.

None of them.

I've dealt with harassment, bullying, doxxing, and abuse. Clear violations. Documented. Repeated. None of that content was removed.

Why? Because we are told the algorithms are sophisticated enough. Because automation has replaced responsibility.

I've also seen this from the business side. Clients with hacked accounts. Clear evidence their business portfolios, pages, and assets were taken over unlawfully. Clear documentation. No ambiguity.

And still, nothing.

No urgency. No accountability. No resolution.

And now we're told AI will fix it.

I'm skeptical.

Not because AI is inherently bad. But because it is being layered on top of systems that already failed people.

When you automate indifference, you don't solve scale. You scale harm.

AI is now deciding what stays up, what comes down, whose account is restored, and whose isn't. All without context, nuance, or meaningful human review.

AI inherits the values of the systems it is trained on. If platforms tolerate harassment, racism, hate speech, bullying, and power abuse, AI will optimize around that tolerance.

Not justice. Not safety. Not people.

Right now, AI isn't being used to protect users. It's being used to protect platforms from users.

At scale.

And yes, the irony isn't lost on me.

I'm posting this on social media. On the very platforms I'm criticizing.

That alone should tell you how trapped this ecosystem has become.

If you want to speak out, you still have to use the tools that harm you. If you want visibility, you still have to feed the machine you distrust. If you want accountability, you're forced to ask for it inside systems designed to avoid it.

That's not empowerment. That's dependency disguised as choice.

Between racism, harassment, hate speech, bullying, and increasingly polarized behavior, these platforms are not improving. They're decaying.

I've reached a point where I don't just distrust them. I genuinely despise what they've become.

If we don't start demanding accountability, transparency, and real human oversight, the future of these platforms isn't just bleak.

It's dangerous.

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