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- renderedred1
one of my thoughts goes in the direction of social in social media. there are severe problems in our society that just get immensely amplified my the medium.
- trooperbill0
the issue is audience profiling and content targeting that creates a self reinforcing echo chamber that drives people more and more to the left/right
- AI-curated feeds manifest the bubble.DRIFTMONKEY
- the echo gets hugely amplified.renderedred
- monNom2
"Once a government is committed to silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens creating a country where everyone lives in fear.” -Harry S. Truman
- grafician0
It's like this because nobody bothered to write a "manual for the Internet" and everybody is doing whatever they like/want rn - users and companies alike
WWW means more Wild Wild West than Web
but overall social media is a looking glass for society more or less, so when we achieve online nirvana, will practically transform our offline society too; rn we're in the "reverse zone" as in anonymous people are worse online than offline - I mean even QBN is a good slice of that (just like now with Trump, QBN tolerated many years the likes of bobo and others like that); so when we learn to behave online, we'll be good offline too.
solutions: more education ofc and even re-education for some
- re-education as in "look, this is how this actually works and this is how you use it"grafician
- i also think education has to play partrenderedred
- we have racists offline to begin with for examplerenderedred
- sted0
just love qbn and think about this every time you want to rage against the moderator or demand banning somebody, now i want you to think again on a global scale. right after that think about how this can be signed into a law (we are still thinking on the global scale), and how that law can be executed on an infrastructure what was built to support human expression in addition to a lot of other things.
- nb0
Experts in the houuuuuuse
- i_monk-8
Letting just any idiot have an equal platform is obviously a mistake.
- I disagree. I think it’s the beauty of the whole thing. No, it’s the entire point of it. Sorry man.monospaced
- The beauty of disinfo, mass manipulation, cancel culture, conspiracy theories, and fomenting anti-democratic coups. "Sorry man." Lol.i_monk
- More and more I find myself agreeing with mono, respect.IRNlun6
- Social media is a tool mono, careful not to conflate it with free speech. Just because you CAN say anything doesn't mean you're owed a microphone.ben_
- One mans idiot is another mans philosopher.Chimp