Facebook harms children and weakens democracy: ex-employee
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Re: Facebook harms children and weakens democracy: ex-employee
#2The ex-employee wants Facebook to engage in more censorship, spying and control. That's their definition of helping people and democracy.
Like Glenn Greenwald said:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1434854149087182848
>>The entire "anti-disinformation"/"anti-extremism" industry is a gigantic fraud, funded by the same tiny handful of billionaires, governments and NGOs: a scam to control discourse while feigning neutral, non-ideological goals to battle "disinformation"
Re: Facebook harms children and weakens democracy: ex-employee
#3The ex-employee wants Facebook to engage in more censorship, spying and control. That's their definition of helping people and democracy. Like Glenn Greenwald said: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1434854149087182848 >>The entire "anti-disinformation"/"anti-extremism" industry is a gigantic fraud, funded by the same tiny handful of billionaires, governments and NGOs: a scam to control discourse while feigning n…
Classifying reigning in massive disinformation campaigns and divisive propaganda as censorship is disingenuous at best.
Re: Facebook harms children and weakens democracy: ex-employee
#4The ex-employee wants Facebook to engage in more censorship, spying and control. That's their definition of helping people and democracy. Like Glenn Greenwald said: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1434854149087182848 >>The entire "anti-disinformation"/"anti-extremism" industry is a gigantic fraud, funded by the same tiny handful of billionaires, governments and NGOs: a scam to control discourse while feigning n…
Classifying reigning in massive disinformation campaigns and divisive propaganda as censorship is disingenuous at best.
The idea of viral news, where the masses somehow take the place of editorial control, is bananas. The average Jane simply has no mental energy to do it properly. No amount of algorithms and bureaucracy can paper over this fundamental reality.
We need 5000 professional news outlets competing for the public's trust, not Facebook with a bureaucratic brain eating parasite.
Re: Facebook harms children and weakens democracy: ex-employee
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Classifying reigning in massive disinformation campaigns and divisive propaganda as censorship is disingenuous at best.
The idea of viral news, where the masses somehow take the place of editorial control, is bananas. The average Jane simply has no mental energy to do it properly. No amount of algorithms and bureaucracy can paper over this fundamental reality. We need 5000 professional news outlets competing for the public's trust, not Facebook with a bureaucratic brain eating parasite.
I agree with you. We need gatekeepers, not unsubstantiated nonsense from the lowest common denominator.
Re: Facebook harms children and weakens democracy: ex-employee
#6The ex-employee wants Facebook to engage in more censorship, spying and control. That's their definition of helping people and democracy. Like Glenn Greenwald said: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1434854149087182848 >>The entire "anti-disinformation"/"anti-extremism" industry is a gigantic fraud, funded by the same tiny handful of billionaires, governments and NGOs: a scam to control discourse while feigning n…
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Re: Facebook harms children and weakens democracy: ex-employee
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
The idea of viral news, where the masses somehow take the place of editorial control, is bananas. The average Jane simply has no mental energy to do it properly. No amount of algorithms and bureaucracy can paper over this fundamental reality. We need 5000 professional news outlets competing for the public's trust, not Facebook with a bureaucratic brain eating parasite.
I agree with you. We need gatekeepers, not unsubstantiated nonsense from the lowest common denominator.
If democracy is a system where the average citizen controls the government through voting, how will we "protect democracy" by intentionally trying to control the opinions and actions of voters, with the implication that their current opinions are wrong? That kind of electorate shaping seems akin to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, where everyone still votes, but it's always influenced to be in favor of the Kim regime.
Re: Facebook harms children and weakens democracy: ex-employee
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The idea of viral news, where the masses somehow take the place of editorial control, is bananas. The average Jane simply has no mental energy to do it properly. No amount of algorithms and bureaucracy can paper over this fundamental reality. We need 5000 professional news outlets competing for the public's trust, not Facebook with a bureaucratic brain eating parasite.
I agree with you. We need gatekeepers, not unsubstantiated nonsense from the lowest common denominator.
Gatekeepers are corruptable usual by money. The web was great previously because we lost the gatekeepers. Now we have 3-5 gatekeepers..facebook, twitter, google..
Re: Facebook harms children and weakens democracy: ex-employee
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with you. We need gatekeepers, not unsubstantiated nonsense from the lowest common denominator.
If democracy is a system where the average citizen controls the government through voting, how will we "protect democracy" by intentionally trying to control the opinions and actions of voters, with the implication that their current opinions are wrong? That kind of electorate shaping seems akin to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, where everyone still votes, but it's always influenced to be in favor of the…
It’s a fine balance that doesn’t work well with hyperbolic extremes like you’re painting. We don’t let people buy materials to make bombs but we don’t prevent farmers from buying fertilizer either. The answer is somewhere in between.
Re: Facebook harms children and weakens democracy: ex-employee
#10I don't know any kid who use facebook and I don't need lectures about democracy from self proclaimed gatekeepers. The kids are in tiktok which is much more damaging to their well being than anything facebook have ever done but nobody wants to confront their Chinese debt holders. I feel that facebook gave me the option for the first time in my life to consume alternative information and point of views rather than being fed by all the media outlets.