>If you can't read and understand that I'm sure you can collect disability checks from the government
When it comes to computers there is a WIDE divide between can't read and doesn't read. I'm sure nearly every person in tech has at some point in their life had an encounter with a non-technical user who, given an error message that clearly states the problem, has selective blindness and doesn't read the error message but rather just clicks 'okay' and can't figure out what the problem was. They could read the error message but have effectively been trained not to.
Similarly facebook users could read that message detailing how their privacy is about to be violated, but have probably been trained not to care.
I'm of the opinion that this is definitely something that has occurred and it has been done very, very deliberately. The media and ad industry and companies like fb work(ed) very hard to encourage people that:
* they should give up privacy in return for (carefully metered out dopamine hits) shiny things.
* they should give up more data and privacy because they've given up x much already
* They've given up all this stuff, fb/et etc already knows everything so they don't have any privacy so why bother protecting stuff _now_
* They gave up all this stuff and look, nothing bad has happened, so if you want privacy, you must be hiding something/a terrorist/a paedophile/etc.
And thus we arrive where we are now. Trying to convince people to take back some privacy and control to un-fuck the whole situation is an uphill battle, because those whose interests are in retaining control and lack of privacy are very well resourced and have gone to great effort to hide negative effects from the users and convince them of their non-existence.
When it comes to computers there is a WIDE divide between can't read and doesn't read. I'm sure nearly every person in tech has at some point in their life had an encounter with a non-technical user who, given an error message that clearly states the problem, has selective blindness and doesn't read the error message but rather just clicks 'okay' and can't figure out what the problem was. They could read the error message but have effectively been trained not to.
Similarly facebook users could read that message detailing how their privacy is about to be violated, but have probably been trained not to care.