Stairs from Pedro Sánchez against the instructions of the digital platforms, start reflashing on Tuesday with Elon Musk and extend the miracle to sponsor Telegram, the transparent latest narrative strategy designed in the Palacio de la Moncloa.
The executive’s proposal to ban access to social reds for people under 16 and the requirement of criminal liability for algorithm administrators allowed the president to position himself as the Diana of tech tycoons.
And that is symptomatic Sánchez personally dealt with the organization of this confrontation.
The president addressed Musk with comments he made to him at X regarding regularization of immigrants. Y, aprovechando que Pavel Durov accused her of creating a “political state”, Sánchez said:
“Leave the thieving techno-oligarchs, Sancho, it’s a signal that the Kabalgams have a secure digital democracy.”
The intention to create antagonism with the leaders of social circles is clear. And thus represents a dichotomy between a transnational technological power and a sovereign democratic power, personifying in its character the opposition to the interests of Silicon Valley.
The effectiveness of this tactic lies in the airy response of those whose attention prompted Sánchez to call it. When entering the trap of governmental provocationsthe technobillonarios allowed him to be erected in his nemesis.
But don’t forget to explain this dispute coincides chronologically with the debates the government has shown interest in avoiding: the extraordinary regulation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, which is the result of a wide review due to its insufficient design, and proposals for the regulation of social networks, questioned by their ineffectiveness and censorship aroma.
Finally, the fight against the “techno-oligarchs” who are now leaving Sánchez must not be a re-edition of the old fight between political power and the ancient “barons of the press” at the beginning of the 20th century.
The phenomenon of sensationalism yellow press de Hearst y Pulitzeror after the influence of magnates like this Rupert Murdochthey worried about their ability to condition government action. What made you call the meter in reality is “power without responsibility”.
However, while in the past these shocks sought to protect the autonomy of parliament, the current government offensive appears to be aimed at create media noise that highlights the taxation of your management.
The return to the external adversary is no less new in Sanchism.
It is an extension of the logic applied in the national plan, where the executive subsequently created enemies according to their convenience, such as journalists, judges, “señores con pure”, “powerful”, “energy lobby” or billionaires from Mars.
Empezó signals “ultraderecha”. Luego, when control went awry, coined the term “fachosphere”. And when the investigation of the known environment led to the juzgados, the theory of “pseudomedia”, “bulos” and “mud machines” was developed.
The “techno-oligarchs” are only the last shadow they illuminate spin doctors de Moncloa, y responding to the same need to avoid unpleasant debates through polarization.
It is undeniable that platforms like Musk or Dúrov pose serious disinformation and security problems that require a regulatory response at European level.
However, the patronage of Sánchez’s behavior in recent years encourages us to consider that his argument with the world’s technological elite is merely a side conflict, the result of an honest search for a safer digital sphere and a healthier public opinion.
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