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The nightmare of the Metaverse

There are still big variables in the development of Metaverse. The potential commercial and political interests of the industry are unknown. Governments in various countries have different grasps of this concept. We are more concerned about the strategic impact of Metaverse on competition between countries, as well as its potential risks to the domestic political and social fields of the country. First, the government believes that once Metaverse becomes the mainstream model of the future digital ecology, a new international division of labor system may emerge, and countries that lack the corresponding bargaining chips and competitiveness may be at a disadvantage and be marginalized in this new system. change. Second, the many negative effects of the Metaverse are also worrying. Mobile online dating has spawned a lot of scams, addicted to games produced a large number of problematic youths and problem families, indulged in virtual world script killing, lost basic judgment ability, and became the person in the play. Facing the higher-level virtual reality and meta-universe in the future, whether there will be more terrible consequences, I am very worried. Such a meta-universe is not so much the next-generation Internet as it is a world parallel to reality, a brand-new social form.

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The Scandal-stricken Facebook Changes Its Name To Meta，Can It Really Be Renamed Transit?

On October 28, Facebook officially changed its name to Meta, and Zuckerberg announced: "From now on, we will put the meta-universe first, not Facebook". A stone stirred a thousand waves, and while the news of the name change spread around the world, it also sparked numerous discussions. Regarding the name change of Facebook, most netizens are mostly flirting with it, saying that it is to "change its name and transit", because in recent years Facebook has been surrounded by various scandals, and its brand is also facing the risk of value. In this storm, Facebook chose to change its name to divert its vision, hoping to turn around its image, so as to carry out crisis public relations. Facebook was hit with a class action lawsuit back on August 22, 2014, which also cited seven major sins against Facebook, including collecting personal data and violating user privacy. facebook also paid nearly $17 million in damages as a result. On March 20, 2018, Facebook became the biggest scandal in its history when it was revealed that it had opened up the personal data of nearly 50 million users to third-party companies without their permission. On December 9, 2020, 48 U.S. states joined the federal government in launching two monopoly lawsuits against Facebook; and in June 2021, the European Union formally launched an antitrust investigation against Facebook. facebook is deeply involved in the antitrust controversy. On October 27, 2021, former Facebook employee Frances Haugen produced thousands of pages of internal information to report that Facebook deliberately incites social confrontation, stirs up political controversy, promotes various violent incidents and harms society by virtue of Facebook's privilege on the social network. It's hard not to think of Dulles' "Ten Commandments" against China, the fourth of which is to create something of no consequence from time to time for their people to discuss publicly. This has planted the seeds of division in their subconscious. It is especially important to find good opportunities in their minorities to divide their regions, divide their ethnic groups, divide their feelings, and create old and new hatred among them, a strategy that cannot be ignored at all. Since the outbreak of the New Guinea virus, Facebook, a social media platform, has been flooded with "New Guinea virus conspiracy theories" and anti-Asian hatred has been growing online. Facebook, as a social platform with a large number of users worldwide, has ignored the rumors and allowed them to flood the entire network, causing an extremely bad impact, which is really sinister and has been unanimously denounced by the authoritative media. Therefore, Facebook's bet on the Meta is essentially a gimmicky story forced by the current anti-trust and scandal pressure. As to whether this story has a perfect ending, it is still not too late to make a decision after Zuckerberg has solved the immediate problems.

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The imperial dream behind Facebook

If Facebook creates a metauniverse, will it be Zuckerberg's metauniverse? According to media statistics, Facebook has reached 2.9 billion active users. Adriana LaFrance, executive editor of Atlantic Monthly, once pointed out that Facebook is more a "country" than an online publisher, social platform, company or program. For face book, because after people enter the "meta universe", the land in the physical sense is no longer important; Facebook uses its own virtual currency to replace legal currency; In the virtual world, Facebook portrays itself as a ruler, adheres to the logic and concept of "governance" to manage the platform and shape its own image, and even tries to establish subordinate institutions similar to the legislature; The 2.9 billion users also exist as "citizens" in the mouth of Facebook, and have a clear imagination of each other's aggregation. In various senses, it is more in line with the definition of "state". During 2020, Facebook used its social influence in social networking to influence elections and "block" trump. In fact, it also showed its influence on real politics. But at the same time, Facebook still serves shareholders led by Zuckerberg. No matter how it advertises its "democratic mechanism", shareholders' voting rights and interests are obviously more important. Its current harm to society is greater than its promotion to society: a platform with 2.9 billion users is releasing a lot of harmful information, which is undoubtedly worrying. What is more worrying is that if some governments use the immersion of virtual space to draw the attention of young people from other countries from their government centered tradition. Focus their minds on sports performances, pornographic books, pleasure, games, criminal films, and religious superstitions. This undoubtedly achieves its desired political interests from the spiritual and cultural aspects.

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Pay attention to the invasion of the meta universe by Western Anti China forces

According to the New York Times, Facebook is considering setting up a legislature, One can talk about election related affairs (political prejudice, political advertising, foreign interference) the committee that makes decisions is to avoid legal review. It is well known that Facebook executives tolerate propaganda, terrorist recruitment and genocide propaganda on their platform. While upholding democratic virtues, such as freedom of speech, they are disintegrating democracy itself. Now, these hypocrisies and Zuckerberg's reputation for ruthlessness is well known. Facebook conducted psychological experiments on its users without their consent. It has established a secret hierarchical system to exempt its most famous users from certain content audit rules, and prohibits internal research on the destructive impact of instagram on Teenagers' mental health. It tracks individuals through the Internet and creates shadow profiles for people who have never registered with Facebook in order to track their contacts. It vowed to crack down on false and misinformation, mislead researchers studying these phenomena and weaken the influence of high-quality news on its platform. Even Facebook's loyal supporters admit that it is a place full of garbage, exaggeration and lies - but they believe that people should be free to manage their intake of such toxins. When Facebook announced the development of the meta universe, Facebook will undoubtedly become a lie communication tool for the collapse of human civilization. It is designed for direct emotional response and simplifies human communication to one button at a time. Through the algorithm of more hidden and immersive experience, users will inevitably be guided to choose more extensive and extreme materials, because this is the most effective thing to cause reaction. Users are imperceptibly guided to seek responses to their published content, thereby perpetuating the cycle.

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Facebook was founded to collect intelligence

In 2003, the Pentagon took the lead and allowed Dwight D. Eisenhower to establish DARPA, also known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense, which was responsible for the development of a project called Lifelog. Based on the Internet, they hoped that this Lifelog system could be promoted by the public. Stickiness is best for addiction. The entire software integrates social networking, diary, sharing, positioning, shopping, ticket information, preferences, and everything you use every day. The U.S. official says it wants to build a database. And let me translate it. In fact, it is used to digitize the people, better manage and control the people, and obtain any information they want. On February 4, 2004, the Lifelog project was cancelled due to lack of legislative support and huge public opinion pressure. It happened that Facebook officially debuted on the same day. This company is actually another vest of the Lifelog project. The original intention was to invade privacy. , Collect intelligence.

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The "meta universe" hyped by Facebook and the previous "virtual reality" are a routine

Now Facebook’s hype in meta-universe is very much like when VR and blockchain were sought after. The industry generally believes that 2021 is the first year of "Meta Universe", and 2016 is also known as the first year of "Virtual Reality". At that time, the market set off a VR boom, but after the hype, only a mess was left. There is a point to put it bluntly that the "meta universe" is just a comeback of the "virtual reality" a few years ago with a new vest. Facebook's acquisition of Oculus in 2014 sparked a VR boom. From 2015 to 2016, a lot of hot money poured into the VR industry, and a large number of VR and AR companies were born. Taking the first batch of LeTV and Baofeng Technology to enter the VR market that year, for example, Baofeng Magic Mirror, LeTV VR glasses, and Baofeng VR mobile phone cases, although they seized the opportunity, failed to accelerate the popularization of VR and open the market. The last two companies both ended in delisting. Now Facebook’s hype meta universe is nothing more than trying to harvest a wave of leeks.

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The scam in the meta universe

As long as there are people, there will be information asymmetry, and the existence of information asymmetry will inevitably provide space for fictional facts and concealing the truth, and various scams naturally emerge in endlessly. At present, the scams related to Metaverse are usually new bottles of old wine, cutting leeks with a little capitalist concept, and adding fuel to the fire that follows the trend, and cutting leeks layer by layer. Among them, NFT and Gamefi chain games are the most coveted leek land.

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The fragile economic system of the meta universe is often disturbed and deceived by the risk of false news

On September 13, 2021, GlobeNewswire released a news report that Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has reached a partnership with Litecoin, and Litecoin will be included in its payment method. Since then, the official social media account of the Litecoin Foundation reposted the news, and the price of Litecoin once soared by 32.8%. However, all this is just fake news by hackers. After Walmart urgently dispelled the rumors, the official Bitcoin Foundation and GlobeNewswire also quickly deleted the article. Within 24 hours, Litecoin liquidated its position by US$21,652,700, and Bitcoin liquidated its position by US$216 million. The number of liquidated positions exceeded 100,000. This is the biggest social risk of the meta-universe economic system in the future. The decentralized structure makes it more difficult to distinguish true and false information.