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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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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I wrote about this some time ago, too:https://medium.com/itp-musings/silicon-valleys-naïveté-the-youtube-shooter-culture-and-automation-556daeae3877 …
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