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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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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There’s been a lot of research into this, actually, and the common thread is social isolation and detachment from existing, real world social communities.
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That's kind of restating the problem, though
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It would be nice if this were an academic question, but because of the incentives and frankly, industry behind outrage we're a little trapped. There's no effective counter to it when office buildings of staff and investors are fueling it. But even cottage MLM is in ascendancy.
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OMG "Nerdesse oblige" is such a great neologism. Totally going to steal it.
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