I think making Facebook the villain, while always fun, takes us past the foundational problem here. Why people are so ready to be radicalized, including into some nonsensical directions like flat earthism, is a bigger question than can fit into a scheme of heroes and villains.https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1439440378856448000 …
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We need some fresh thinking on how to incorporate communication technologies into our social lives in a way that doesn't incentivize anger, radicalize the vulnerable, and turn every issue into tribal war. Nerdesse oblige on the part of the current players is not going to cut it.
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And finally, we have to take this discussion out of the American cultural context these companies marinate in. You can't localize the dynamics of social media the way you would translate a web page, by doing an American version first and then tweaking it a bit for the foreigners
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A lot of people have been comparing Facebook to big tobacco, but in my view the better metaphor for social media is alcohol. Unrestricted it's a disaster, but most of the work of keeping it in check is done by social norms, and differs across cultures. Some do better than others.
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While we wait, though, letting a bunch of pasty nerds continue to run this apparatus of influence for profit is no bueno. Let's at least demonetize it (by cutting away at the taproot of surveillance and data collection) while we figure out how to live with it long term.
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All that said about the futility of prescriptive content policing, I still believe people should do thirty years without parole for posting any recipe that doesn't start with the ingredient list and continue immediately with a straightforward description of how to make the dish.
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That is a great insight. Thank you.
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How would you define this project, and what makes you think that suppression of speech, rather than a reconsideration of voice, would be its goal? Other than that the WSJ is major media and partially supported by digital advertising, what are the criticisms I should take away?
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This is hard to answer in tweet form, but I've given a bunch of talks that lay out my thinking on such questions more systematically. Hopefully the abstracts give you an idea which ones are worth looking at. https://idlewords.com/talks/
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Lawmakers are limited by their knowledge about available tools while those 'in the know' remain silent about what can be done for obvious business reasons. A deadlock that's not different from medical care.
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