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Do we ask or expect the same of the phone or cable companies? Why the agenda to (further) censor Facebook and similar?
I think that the underlying issue is the two party system. The echo chambers get amplified.
Do we ask or expect the same of the phone or cable companies? Why the agenda to (further) censor Facebook and similar?
Phone companies don't set up incentive structures that encourage a certain kind of content. Facebook has an "algorithmic" feed, likes, and "engagement" metrics that rewards certain behaviours and punish others. They are rightly being pilloried when these incentives encourage and promote constant outrage, conspiracies, and completely fact-free fear mongering.
IMHO, because they do perform curation, both algorithmic and manual, they should be considered publishers.
Anyone know a good paywall workaround for wsj?
I cannot believe that everyone is ethicality challenged, only perhaps the people in control. So what goes through that minds of people who don't agree with such decisions. Do they keep quiet, just worry about the payroll, convince themselves that what the management is selling is a good argument for such product/service....
Luckily I've never had to face such a dilemma, but can't be envious of those who have faced and come out of it by losing either their morals or jobs.
Every platform ultimately makes choices in how users engage with it, whether that goal is to drive up engagement, ad revenues or whatever metric is relevant to them. My general read is that Facebook tries to message that they're "neutral" arbiters and passive observers of whatever happens on their platform. But they aren't, certainly not in effect, and possibly in intent either. To preserve existing algorithms is not…
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/every...
Do we ask or expect the same of the phone or cable companies? Why the agenda to (further) censor Facebook and similar?
As it is, Facebook is constantly making editorial decisions in terms of what content is shown (which posts, in what order, with what presentation). Their own research had found that some of those editorial decisions have externalities in the form of increasing social conflict. Rather than take steps to address it, or even research this question more, they wiped their hands of it.