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Saw a tweet from

this morning asking Apple & Google to ban Parler from their app stores. Seems Apple is now in the process of doing so unless they start moderating violent content. Between the violence in Washington and Dems taking over, right wing havens at risk. twitter.com/seanmdav/statu

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Wen banning all web browsers? The problem isn’t really the content — it’s the algo promoting it. These services will eventually become fully decentralized if they’re forced to moderate all content. Then what? Back to the real solution: education, screeners, web of trust.

10:07 PM · Jan 8, 2021Twitter for iPhone

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I've had the same thought. Decentralized networks with the same sort of negative externality producing algorithms scare the heck out of me. We may have all the same problems, with no "off" switch.