As the Department of Justice executes an antitrust suit against Google, Elizabeth Warren hosts fundraisers against big tech, and Josh Hawley writes a book called The Tyranny of Big Tech, the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma has found a captive market.
The film focuses on the methods employed by social media to keep our attention and the effects of those methods. Presented by a number of former employees of large technology firms, the documentary also plays out skits to show the implications of technology’s presence in everyday life. As a longtime sceptic of social networking, I was happy to hear several friends say that the film caused them to question their use of social media. I was hopeful that the film would stir broad reflection, particularly among millennials and Gen Z, since their intake of Netflix is all but guaranteed.
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