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Re: Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online

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> She should have did affiliate marketing & patreon. And, like, ... not shot people.

It's funny how often that's a bad solution to a problem. Not always mind you ... but mostly.

She did get some wider attention to a problem that has been discussed inside the YouTube community before. While that's not something I'd want to die for, she may have reached her goal.

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#192

This looks like it's going to be an increasingly big problem for the platform giants, as it pertains to their increasingly aggressive speech restrictions. As they ramp those restrictions up, I'd expect the need for security to increase accordingly. A mentally unwell person is likely to feel targeted, oppressed, threatened, harmed, etc. by being silenced. They'll feel isolated and it'll very likely feel like a persona…

Maybe with some AI we could target unhealthy people and flatter their egos. Like fake accounts subscribing commenting and agreeing with the troubled soul.

This doesn't make me optimistic for the future of social media.

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You don't have to be "frothing at the mouth" to be mentally unstable. I saw her videos on Dailymotion and I had the impression that something is not right with her, can't really pinpoint or explain what it is. but definitely very awkward in front of the camera. Just my personal take on it.

You mean like Poppy who has millions of views on youtube? If you saw her before she was known you'd probably think she was just as likely to shoot up youtube HQ. The truth it's not as easy as it seems to separate the "merely deviant" and the violently deviant. That's why censors often choose blanket censorship of any deviance.

Poppy is an act though. This woman does not appear to be acting very much.

Re: Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online

#194

This looks like it's going to be an increasingly big problem for the platform giants, as it pertains to their increasingly aggressive speech restrictions. As they ramp those restrictions up, I'd expect the need for security to increase accordingly. A mentally unwell person is likely to feel targeted, oppressed, threatened, harmed, etc. by being silenced. They'll feel isolated and it'll very likely feel like a persona…

Maybe with some AI we could target unhealthy people and flatter their egos. Like fake accounts subscribing commenting and agreeing with the troubled soul.

doesn't really help with ad revenue

Re: Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online

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I see, early reports seemed to indicate the shooter was at a party, possibly inside. Really sad when employees in the bay area, which is generally very safe, have to fear for their lives because of something their employer may have done to piss someone off.

> Really sad when employees in the bay area, which is generally very safe, have to fear for their lives because of something their employer may have done to piss someone off. It would be if that were true, but it isn’t. Even if there were an order of magnitude more attacks along these lines it would not warrant anyone having to fear for their life as they would still be exceedingly rare.

But some people do fear for their life, because this kind of shit has happened to them before.

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#196

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Blowing people up got Ted Kaczynski's anti-technology manifesto printed in the NYTimes. Even if got through to one person I bet he feels like it was worth it. It's not something to admit in polite company but violence is a great way to start a conversation.

Just because it's effective doesn't mean it's correct though.

What is the definition of "correct" in this context that we can all agree to?

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Maybe with some AI we could target unhealthy people and flatter their egos. Like fake accounts subscribing commenting and agreeing with the troubled soul.

This doesn't make me optimistic for the future of social media.

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Re: Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online

#198

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Just because it's effective doesn't mean it's correct though.

What is the definition of "correct" in this context that we can all agree to?

Morally correct?

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Why was her YouTube channel nuked after this happening? Seems weird and dystopian, even if what she did was obviously very wrong.

Probably because you dont know what she put up there, and you dont want to give an attempted murderer a giant platform, as a win.

I do know what she put there, though, since on the internet is is fairly trivial to see what was on a publicly available and commonly crawled website before it was removed.

And there was nothing that related to the killing, and nothing even tangentially related to the ban message. No 'final manifesto' or anything like that.

If you are curious, here is a mirror of her videos: http://www.dailymotion.com/yesilnasim/videos

Re: Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online

#200

This looks like it's going to be an increasingly big problem for the platform giants, as it pertains to their increasingly aggressive speech restrictions. As they ramp those restrictions up, I'd expect the need for security to increase accordingly. A mentally unwell person is likely to feel targeted, oppressed, threatened, harmed, etc. by being silenced. They'll feel isolated and it'll very likely feel like a persona…

Maybe with some AI we could target unhealthy people and flatter their egos. Like fake accounts subscribing commenting and agreeing with the troubled soul.

If you have a profile on Instagram and try to build a following through hashtags, this may as well already be true. You tend to get random international followers (at least temporarily) who post fairly inane comments trying to seem engaging.

Fake AIs could probably come up with better content!

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