[sk2020]

“Why don’t I have total control of what every else says, writes or thinks?”

Aw, shucks, I guess we’re just going to have to adopt global despotism to stop this crisis of rude behavior.

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[invalidname]

Read the article. Not the stupid headline. She made an experiment where it shows quite clearly how the networks take problematic people and make them worse by bombarding them with constant misogynistic content.

This fits perfectly with the stories about Facebook. They tune the algorithm for retention not to keep people informed. As a result it makes them more extreme in their views. We might have fewer terrorists, shooting and rape if they just used a normal clean news feed instead of targeting everything.

[sk2020]

Facebook causes terrorism, murder, and rape? What evidence was the basis of that conclusion?

I’m guessing the solution is a global network of unaccountable mandarins to institute a global Clockwork Orange style brainwashing campaign targeting people with the audacity of having bad opinions? In the populations where this has been implemented, say North Korea, China, Cambodia, Russia and friends, were the populations worse or better for the experience?