Is Facebook rolling out default end-to-end encryption here the beginning of the end for "technosolutionism"? The idea that somehow we can "solve" all social problems via technology.

Technosolutionism was always a really terrible ideology, although not a surprising one, given the marketability of it by tech firms (and one which tends to trend towards totalitarianism, human rights violations, and dubious interventions).

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@olives Technology, like alcohol, is both the source of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

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