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I do think that weaponized technology is worth talking about. More sophisticated technology makes it cheaper to do harm at scale. Placing the sole burden of fighting misinformation on the individual is not only unfair but unrealistic.
I'm not disagreeing with you on the unique potency and scale, and that it's unrealistic to depend on individuals to fight this alone. But what I'm getting at is if you just fight the technology, you're fighting a whack-a-mole game and it's just an arms race much like captcha.
I agree that demonizing the technology both hide the systems that exploit and weaponize it and create FUD that does more harm than good (although it makes for good clickbait which is I guess why this happens in the first place heh)
Yeah that's a great point there too- the click bait and FUD is a bit of a distraction considering the current climate. It makes me think of the fashionable straws thing vs everything else that is utterly destroying the environment.
I really think we need to ask ourselves how we're failing on a more general level and attack it from that angle. We're failing on basics like getting people to believe in vaccines. We have the "information super highway" but it's really the "confirmation bias superhighway".
As I see it, if you see the Internet as a railway, it's great infrastructure by itself. But the problem is that there are just a few train stations controlled by big corporations. The information that makes it to people is highly filtered and shaped by their market needs.
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