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>But when "refraining from censorship" ends with advertisers (your main source of income) pulling out, your options become "censor videos" or "shutdown the service". False dichotom…

>Specifically, Facebook is not managed by a "political unit". It's managed by its owners, who have authority over it because it is their property and they have property rights. Gov…

The definition you cherry picked still seems to describe the management of Facebook. What specific part of the definition do you think excludes FB from being called a government? >…

>By that definition, every conceivable grouping of human beings that has any sort of leadership has a government, but that definition is so broad as to be useless. Well, that is in…

>Government: the governing body of a nation, state, or community. Is Facebook a community? If so it would seem it fits the plain dictionary definition.

WRT #3, the problem seems to be moreso consciously executed covert and overt political censorship/demonetization of undesireable speech rather than the problem of unconscious biase…

1. Hire more support 2. Provide clearly defined guidelines as they relate to the algo and be equitable with enforcement 3. Be politically neutral This will not guarantee safety fro…

Seems like hunting hackers is a lot like hunting witches. What is considered as evidence/proof is extremely superficial and can easily be faked. The convenient enemy of the day is …

Indeed. When you hold a child up as a political shield don't be surprised when it gets attacked.

>FB had been in denial about the politics issue, I suspect they still don't fully grasp it. They're not a neutral platform. They grasp it. They've been running research studies on …

>shares nothing with the China being discussed right now. Seems like apples to oranges, assuming the implied comparison is with western post-industrial age nations, which began ind…

Haven't US special forces been in Syria for years now?

It does seem to violate the CFAA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

If information is power, then that is like asking if having more power is more profitable than having less power.

Is there a prominent ideology that hasn't lead to murders?

>We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, s…

>power doesn't lie with the people who can press “Like” (etc.), it lies with the people who select and continuously tweak based on observed effect the algorithm by which Likes and …

So it seems the theory here is that strong AI whose primary objective is to make money is ultimately self destructive?

>Literally anyone with software to generate NOAA SAME tones, together with a software-defined radio and amplifier, can walk near one of a handful of "primary entry points" and belt…

Showing how billions of people's psychological profiles can be algorithmically weaponized against them would be highly informative I would think. That way the average user would un…

>Very few people ever read "Terms & Conditions" and that's a problem. People don't read them because they can't read them. >read: look at and comprehend the meaning of (written or …

>I'm having a hard time understanding why any of what is known is at all a surprise to someone who understands tech. The vast majority of FB users don't understand tech, and that's…