What those who get radicalized had in common was watching YouTube, says this NYT article. A generation ago what those who got radicalized had in common was reading books. Solution: ban those books? No.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html …
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Replying to @kevin2kelly @Plinz
This is a pointless analogy because there is no vastly effective suggestion system in books as there is in YouTube. Maybe it's already enough if YouTube doesn't shove the lunatic shit down everyones throat.
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I mean seriously, its kinda hard to avoid Nazis and UFOs on that platform.
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Replying to @zauberlaus_ @kevin2kelly
I can tell that you preferred the boring books as a child :D
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Replying to @Plinz @kevin2kelly
Because today I prefer not to watch Alex Jones? That's kind of a stretch.
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Replying to @zauberlaus_ @kevin2kelly
No, because you missed all the cool and extremely convincing books about Nazi alien ufo conspiracies, magic, precognition, MK Ultra etc :)
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Replying to @Plinz @kevin2kelly
Well ok, I never felt the need to read a book about it, because I had internet from age 10?
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I see! I suddenly feel very old.
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