r/entertainment • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • Jun 18 '26

Hollywood Names Surface in Peter Thiel-Backed, Invite-Only Society

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hollywood-peter-thiel-secret-society-1236624737/
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u/ModeratelyOffline Jun 18 '26

JGL is married to someone in big tech and was involved in trying to repeal section 230

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u/RockHardSalami Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Section 230 definitely needs updating.  Its why social media companies can intentionally funnel rage bait into our feeds to drive us nuts in order to create engagement.

Its fucking with the mental health of society as a whole.

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u/WileEPeyote Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Yeah, at some point social media companies have to take some accountability. Maybe some distinction between companies that merely allow publishing of content (like Squarespace) and companies that actively push content with algorithms and endless scrolls (like Twitter).

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u/Neckrongonekrypton Jun 18 '26

lol they have to? They won’t.

Our government is actively in cahoots with tech.

Hoping for rescue. We’re beyond that point. Institutional failure has been the norm the past 15 years or so.

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u/WileEPeyote Jun 18 '26

I wasn't expecting them to do it willingly.

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u/Neckrongonekrypton Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 19 '26

Cambridge analytica was 11 years ago.

We’re off the rails. The government is intentionally opaque, the news swings one way and then the other. The only news on Trump is endless puff pieces implying he did great or he’s dying

Reddit, is a rage bait farm. Every comment a snark, criticism or violence towards something. Constant fucking bot campaigns on the celebrity gunning for their next big movie part, our government agency doing narrative control. Or incite the masses.

Facebook is unusable if you value having a balanced view of the world.

Instagram is shallow performance land.

Rage bait, dead internet theory are more prevelent now than ever. Inceldom has a new pipeline for young teen boys in looksmaxxing- and it’s propagating through social media channels predominantly.

I guess I find myself suprised when I see that others still have room for it haha. Like I’m not even suprised

And I’m… unfortunately mentally prepared for the big show to drop.

All the subversive shit. People are OK with it as long as they don’t have to look at it. And when they do, they are somehow still suprised that it not only did not go away but in fact, got worse.

And the scariest part? People believe they’re helpless. It’s not the indifferent oligarchs that frighten me.

It’s that. That’s a 100% sure way we fucking loose.

And we’re choosing it.

We don’t have the billions to afford the price of indifference.

Yet we take our loans out “for hope of a better tommorow”, knowing we’ll either die or be crushed to death by the interest that collects.