Beware (much worse) weaponisation by states via "regulation"https://twitter.com/nicolasterry/status/973007065299013632 …
Agreed, troubling trends all around. But YT really needs to rein in its shrill, radicalizing recommendation algorithm, for instance.
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Unwise to delegate decisions on what "radicalization" is to (then) state-blessed platforms, promoting de-facto extrajudicial privatized censorship, regulating sites like YT as nannies for us all, as if we're just mindless automatons incapable of learning.
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Such may be the bet of state propaganda, but even assuming mindless viewers an algorithm which is to be tuned by the regimes we live in is not more comforting than one tuned by the Big Bad Company. By now I have zero trust in state interference on 'content' visibility.
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Even on privacy I may be losing hope on state regulation, as much as I do respect all the efforts of those still battling for that (e.g.
@aral on surveillance capitalism) — maybe some hope at the 'consumer' level, but much harder when about privacy versus state institutions… -
I.e., maybe I ended up 'radicalized' on where to find some bits of hope for freedom of communication and for privscy — generically, tools that may allow individual action beyond control of state actors.
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Something around https://twitter.com/Ctzn5/status/714628716761112576 … — which, I am aware, many now working hard for privacy and freedom may find shocking. Otoh, as I often say, I wish those, who still hope on improving states as we know them, are right; and that my pessimism is wrong)
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digging up the classics, nice

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my thoughts on this with YouTube as the example are here btwhttps://twitter.com/ctzn5/status/973067968740560897?s=21 …
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@St_Rev Feeling ~ the same, that even if one doesn't avoid such temptations by-principle, one should not neglect the risk that we ultimately get what we ask for. (Many years later, lots of "how did we end there" (fascism, whatever) 'reflection' again?) - 1 more reply
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