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700 young McDonald's workers, who were aged 19 or younger when working for the company, in over 450 outlets across the UK are suing over sexual assault, sexual harassment, homophobia, racism, and discrimination.
January 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Today it was announced that Trump ally, and UFC CEO, Dana White was added onto Meta's board of Directors in a further move by big tech and social media companies to cosy up to trump.
darkened background of Meta building in Dublin, socialist Party Logo in top left, picture of Dana white and Donald Trump in top right, center middle a news headline that reads "mark zuckerberg adds trump ally dana white to board of directors" with green business post logo at bottom right of the news headline. text in green reads "big tech rolling in behind trump" in white, larger font it reads "socialist feminist movement of workers and marginalised needed to tackle trumpism" darkened background of meta building in Dublin, text reads "the tech sector has been the most dynamic sector of the capitalist economy in recent decades, since teh age of the internet transformed communication, and increasigly, so many other aspects of our daily lives. innovation and technological breakthroughs are centrainly party of this, but a significant factor in the growth of teh tech sector is financial speculation, leading to a continuous inflow of cash which inflates share prices and leads to more investment - far beyond what any real innovation would warrant. profiteering is the reason for social media companies and big tech cosying up to trump, trump represents the capitalist class and big business interests" darkened background of meta building in dublin, text reads "the potential for social media as an effective tool for working-class interests also scares the ruling classes. in the past, the internet has been effective for organising workers and communities. this explains why socialist content is increasingly restricted or banned on corporate social media sites and why such sites have become cesspits of advertising, scams, conspiracy theories, racism, sexism, and queerphobia. a study carried our last by DCU's anti-bullyin centre showed that social media platforms were "bombarding" boys with misogynistic and male supremacist content" the sites amplify all sorts of divisive and manipulative propaganda to protect the ruling class from increasingly popular working-class ideas about an alternative, progressive way of organising society, namely, socialist ideas. the internet is an incredible technology with incredibly positive potential. however, this potential is hampered by the profit drive and capitalist ownership. the billionare entrepreneurs have had their go and its been awful; the major tech companies should be seized into democratic public ownership and run on a not for profit basis - without advertising and harmful algorithms - under teh control fo workers and users. the full potential of internet technology can only be realised by such a democratic, worker-controlled internet thats run for our needs - a truly free internet where advertising, scams, and spam become things of the past.
January 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM