1/ I disagree with a lot of what Balaji is saying here with the exception of the central point: This is a bad precedent.https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1244944104493961217 …
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2/ We've seen it already for culture war stuff. Banning / blocking gives the appearance of a hygienic information environment for an incredibly superficial reason: It's just no longer observable.
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3/ I don't even mean edgelord platforms like Gab. I mean, things like WhatsApp and others. How many times has someone told you about their friend of a friend in the national guard at this point?
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4/ Counter-argument can work. But it tends to enlist group-calculus which frustrates belief integration. Ignoring bad information can work. But it also risks not invoking Linus' law when needed. Amplifying the best information works very well. But loud rejection matters, too.
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5/ I don't have an actual answer other than facebook, twitter, and all the rest should be neither the central point of failure or source of algorithmically mono-cropped attention. Mixtures for great good.
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Replying to @generativist
It’s relatively well known Bolsonaro has an army of Twitter bots to inflate his fake news bubble. Until Twitter get its shit together, I don’t think there’s better option other than removing his content (which by the way is an extremely rare event)
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I'm sympathetic that that argument because I think it's plausible that it reduced covid-related harm. Except, everyone has their bot nets now. And even absent algorithmic ones, people and existing media architectures replicate them well (although, "why" goes the other way.)
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Replying to @generativist @thiagobrandam
But also, yes, *because* twitter is one client and offers stunningly bad anti-abuse / social hygiene tools, it absolutely risks something like blight, but for information.
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