Nicholas Carr on how to fix social media
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Nicholas Carr on how to fix social media
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Re: Nicholas Carr on how to fix social media
#2> As the dominant informational networks of the twenty-first century, they need to be accountable for the content they broadcast, whatever its source.
The article seems to be arguing that social media companies need to be judge, jury and censor over every message that is "broadcast", i.e. sent to more than a few close friends.
It admits that defining a "public interest" standard is basically impossible, but assumes that this ambiguity won't be exploited by whichever side is in control of whichever body gets to punish the social media companies for under- or over-censoring.
If someone tweets "Click here to read my 400 page manifesto about what is wrong with America", would Twitter need to assign lawyers the task of scouring that document for "problematic" passages like "defund the police" or "give more power to ICE"?
Perhaps if there were a workable system in place for silencing extreme and misinformed voices on the TV and radio, we could try applying it at scale to the internet too, but right now that's like trying to run before you can crawl.
Re: Nicholas Carr on how to fix social media
#3My 2 cents on how to fix social media, maybe it is stupid but to ban any political discussion. People LOVE talking about politics especially in their personal community (echo chamber). I swear this is the most fun political people have had on the internet in 20 years. It’s too bad it just becomes an echo chamber. We had a community group for our town on Facebook, all it was was fake accounts and people talking shit about Democrats and the occasional left wing person talking shit back. Recently they banned political discussion and anything not directly related to our town. Thank the fucking lord. People will still slip in some political bullshit but it’s miles better.
Re: Nicholas Carr on how to fix social media
#4My 2 cents on how to fix social media, maybe it is stupid but to ban any political discussion. People LOVE talking about politics especially in their personal community (echo chamber). I swear this is the most fun political people have had on the internet in 20 years. It’s too bad it just becomes an echo chamber. We had a community group for our town on Facebook, all it was was fake accounts and people talking shit a…
What about instead to "counter immaturity in discussion", like we are trying to do here?
Re: Nicholas Carr on how to fix social media
#5Can't we just go back to the era where the "feed" or the "wall" was just the posts of our friends / the people we follow sorted by posting date and not this horrible algorithm made to show you infinite content ?
Re: Nicholas Carr on how to fix social media
#6Can't we just go back to the era where the "feed" or the "wall" was just the posts of our friends / the people we follow sorted by posting date and not this horrible algorithm made to show you infinite content ?
While very desirable that probably means that social media sites would have to be paid for at least in part by subscription fees.
Re: Nicholas Carr on how to fix social media
#7Can't we just go back to the era where the "feed" or the "wall" was just the posts of our friends / the people we follow sorted by posting date and not this horrible algorithm made to show you infinite content ?
While very desirable that probably means that social media sites would have to be paid for at least in part by subscription fees.
Or it means they reduce costs to what’s supportable by just inserting ads into RSS feeds every x items.
This isn’t very likely. But it’s more likely than someone charging to aggregate IM statuses and put them in chronological order.
Re: Nicholas Carr on how to fix social media
#8Can't we just go back to the era where the "feed" or the "wall" was just the posts of our friends / the people we follow sorted by posting date and not this horrible algorithm made to show you infinite content ?
Unless someone regulates it, no! Of course FB has no interest in that…
One has to realize that FB is only optimizing for profit (and Zuck not going to jail). The only times they curbed was when bad PR was threatening their profits (and Mark’s freedom).
Re: Nicholas Carr on how to fix social media
#9My 2 cents on how to fix social media, maybe it is stupid but to ban any political discussion. People LOVE talking about politics especially in their personal community (echo chamber). I swear this is the most fun political people have had on the internet in 20 years. It’s too bad it just becomes an echo chamber. We had a community group for our town on Facebook, all it was was fake accounts and people talking shit a…
I think every social media will grow until it reaches politics, stock / investment or pornography. And you would think having a special channel for those would fix it, but no, it always creeps back in. It is sort of strange to continue see the same pattern over and over again.
Personally I think we have a human nature problem, and not a technology problem looking for market fit.
Re: Nicholas Carr on how to fix social media
#10My 2 cents on how to fix social media, maybe it is stupid but to ban any political discussion. People LOVE talking about politics especially in their personal community (echo chamber). I swear this is the most fun political people have had on the internet in 20 years. It’s too bad it just becomes an echo chamber. We had a community group for our town on Facebook, all it was was fake accounts and people talking shit a…
You realize that under your proposal, your own proposal would be banned right? You are advocating policy. That’s politics.