As someone who is heavily against corporate (still doubtful of state-level) mass surveillance, and someone who likes FLOSS and general online privacy (again, mainly towards corporations that sell my data), i found myself thinking about how it would really be like under socialism. I might be off with the accuracy, but the PRC and DPRK are pretty heavy on surveillance and censorship, or at least that is what we are told, and although i find myself agreeing with socialism, i have mixed feelings about this specific part, and finding info on the internet is pretty hard, or at least unbiased info is. Can some kind comrade inform me on the topic? Excuse the ignorance
First, I wouldn’t really say either of those are socialist or communist despite whatever they call themselves. If anything they’d be state capitalists or something. Neither of them (as far as I know or understand) have the people owning the means of production.
With that being said, in an actual socialist state, I think decentralised social media would thrive just fine. We’d see massive reforms in how traditional social media functions though, since those would go into the hands of the workers and inevitably be run different.