We should also be looking harder at platforms like Facebook and Twitter that have relaxed, or in the case of Musk with Twitter, outright removed the people in charge of making sure that their platforms aren’t just disinformation fire hoses spewing shit all over the place. When we have millions of people that are part of a cult, or just lack any critical thinking ability, the last thing we need as a society is these large platforms designed to just put the worst conspiracy/hate/*phobic stuff in front of as many eyeballs as possible.
Yeah. I’m kinda of two minds on this idea. On one hand, I agree with the notion that ‘the cure for speech you don’t like is more speech’, so outright banning BS like the X-Verse would be harmful in my eyes, but the algorithms blocking stuff you don’t agree with while shoving whatever toxic BS you eat up for engagement is a huge part of why our country is as fucked as it is! It’s also good that these people are talking out in public rather than hiding in covens of hatemongers all clad in full-coverage pointy-hoods. Gives us more understanding of what we’re up against.
How do we rein in the Social Media companies without shutting down (more like driving underground) these hateful views? Maybe outlaw AI filtering what we see, requiring Social Media platforms to show ALL posts and comments in chronological order, with Ads being outside of the Timeline, and the only posts being blocked being those the user has explicitly blocked (by post or by user)? 🤔
Yeah I didn’t mean to suggest going as far as shutting any of the platforms down, but they shouldn’t be able to game their algorithms to push hate speech and conspiracy theories while suppressing facts. Unless they wanted to put a disclaimer under every use of said algorithm stating such. Although, at least in the US, hate speech isn’t always protected speech.
We should also be looking harder at platforms like Facebook and Twitter that have relaxed, or in the case of Musk with Twitter, outright removed the people in charge of making sure that their platforms aren’t just disinformation fire hoses spewing shit all over the place. When we have millions of people that are part of a cult, or just lack any critical thinking ability, the last thing we need as a society is these large platforms designed to just put the worst conspiracy/hate/*phobic stuff in front of as many eyeballs as possible.
Yeah. I’m kinda of two minds on this idea. On one hand, I agree with the notion that ‘the cure for speech you don’t like is more speech’, so outright banning BS like the X-Verse would be harmful in my eyes, but the algorithms blocking stuff you don’t agree with while shoving whatever toxic BS you eat up for engagement is a huge part of why our country is as fucked as it is! It’s also good that these people are talking out in public rather than hiding in covens of hatemongers all clad in full-coverage pointy-hoods. Gives us more understanding of what we’re up against.
How do we rein in the Social Media companies without shutting down (more like driving underground) these hateful views? Maybe outlaw AI filtering what we see, requiring Social Media platforms to show ALL posts and comments in chronological order, with Ads being outside of the Timeline, and the only posts being blocked being those the user has explicitly blocked (by post or by user)? 🤔
Yeah I didn’t mean to suggest going as far as shutting any of the platforms down, but they shouldn’t be able to game their algorithms to push hate speech and conspiracy theories while suppressing facts. Unless they wanted to put a disclaimer under every use of said algorithm stating such. Although, at least in the US, hate speech isn’t always protected speech.