The clearest take I've seen on this: https://www.piratewires.com/p/bombshell
The money quote, in my opinion:
> The thing is, we’re not really asking for Facebook to control itself, we’re asking Facebook to control other people.
Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy
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#22The two best ideas I've heard: - Require age verification by law and ban kids from using it. We ban kids from alcohol we should ban them from this. - Require ID verification by law but allow people to use a fake name. Fixes the bots issue and the kid depression issue. The market isn't going to get there by itself because of competition. If insta implements this then they lose market share to snap. So there's a strong…
> Require ID verification
I'll pass on putting my personal ID in the hands of an organization that sells data as a business. No matter how many flimsy laws they put in place to ban selling my PII, you'd have to be born yesterday to think that won't just delay the sale this new treasure-trove of information.
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#23Google Sought Patent on Facebook Whistleblower's Monetizing Polarization Scheme https://slashdot.org/submission/14712823/google-sought-paten...
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#24Welcome in 2015. No kids use facebook anymore
As was made abundantly clear yesterday, Facebook’s apps also include Instagram and What’s App, which are very much in-scope for this topic.
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#25Welcome in 2015. No kids use facebook anymore
> She leaked a trove of internal research and communications showing the company was aware of the ills of its platforms, including the toxic risks of Instagram to some teenage girls' mental health and the prevalence of drug cartels and human traffickers on its apps.
Please read the article next time.
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#26The two best ideas I've heard: - Require age verification by law and ban kids from using it. We ban kids from alcohol we should ban them from this. - Require ID verification by law but allow people to use a fake name. Fixes the bots issue and the kid depression issue. The market isn't going to get there by itself because of competition. If insta implements this then they lose market share to snap. So there's a strong…
Those sound too chilling.
I’d propose banning algorithms for services with over one million users. Users must have complete control over what their feed shows. (And ability to filter)
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#27Wow, what a headline, "can someone please think of the children?" and "we must protect our democracy!" combined into one. Well, I guess it's a good tactics to say something like that to the Congress to kinda force them to do something.
Whether or not one agrees with articles like these, I always give it extra scrutiny if any of the Four Horsemen of the
Infocalypse are mentioned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
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#28Wow, what a headline, "can someone please think of the children?" and "we must protect our democracy!" combined into one. Well, I guess it's a good tactics to say something like that to the Congress to kinda force them to do something.
Should have heard the "whistleblower" on 60 minutes. Facebook is causing ethnic cleansing she said, lol. I didn't realize Facebook was so popular in China, that's the only place I know of ethnic cleansing being carried out. This is clearly orchestrated to get FB to censor more. Twitter has already fallen in line completely, that's why they are off the radar even though they are 1000% more toxic and teenagers are more…
Wasn’t the genocide in Myanmar primarily spread and encouraged on Facebook?
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#29Wait till they hear about the values in the Grand Theft Auto games that kids are playing.
Re: Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy
#30Wow, what a headline, "can someone please think of the children?" and "we must protect our democracy!" combined into one. Well, I guess it's a good tactics to say something like that to the Congress to kinda force them to do something.
Should have heard the "whistleblower" on 60 minutes. Facebook is causing ethnic cleansing she said, lol. I didn't realize Facebook was so popular in China, that's the only place I know of ethnic cleansing being carried out. This is clearly orchestrated to get FB to censor more. Twitter has already fallen in line completely, that's why they are off the radar even though they are 1000% more toxic and teenagers are more…
Sorry, you are very underinformed in this case.
Sudan and South Sudan, Myanmar, Iraq and Central African Republic, just to name ongoing cleanings classified as actual genocides. Surprisingly, the continuously peddled "Yellow Danger" is not a good lens to get accurate information about the world...