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Social Cooling (2017)

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Re: Social Cooling (2017)

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No, its to avoid auto downranking, by which ever filter the platform uses. You can use all those words, but then, the theory goes, STT and OCR interprets the "bad" words and limits the reach of them.

But isn't this part of the problem? People just self-censor to not be censored.

If only content that follows the censor rules survives the censor, is that "self" censorship? That just sounds like plain ol' censorship.

Re: Social Cooling (2017)

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> The racism and selfishness of right-wing politics is just … ugh, honestly, I just can’t. It’s Godless. The first step would be to humbly recognize your side’s shortcomings. To me, aiding the destruction of malls, pardoning authors of crimes is bad, protesting against having borders is worse and defunding the police is a hallmark of criminality (and before you say it: Defunding doesn’t mean rearranging, it means def…

Many of the religious views I see coming out of the US right now aren't Christian, ie following Christ, but some Abrahamic[1] mishmash wrapped up in jingoism.

[1] not sure what to call it maybe fundamentalism.

Re: Social Cooling (2017)

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> Once you become milder in your accusations ... > but your side is against law enforcement

It’s easy to say “The other camp is extreme, so we have to”, but you’re welcome if you have any proposal. My proposal is: I think an extreme lot of my camp would switch if there was an ethical left, with strong ethics but also not prone to degrading whites. What’s your proposal?

My proposal is that you drop the holier than thou attitude.

Re: Social Cooling (2017)

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The social credit score doesn't exist in China. There were attempts in some cities with very restricted scopes but they were phased out.

On the other hand, in Europe and with the coming chat control regulations, these systems will likely emerge in the West.

Re: Social Cooling (2017)

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I honestly love this as someone who never has a consistent identity in terms of the name I use online and not keeping a long history such as re-creating accounts whenever it is convenient. This is especially relevant on social media platforms where I don't want to feel like someone can just dig up something I've said or shared 5 years ago and use that against me. It also helps me stay myself without changing my behav…

{ concerned_with_privacy: true, online_usernames: ['kachapopopow', ...] } ;) As someone else mentioned, most likely you've been fingerprinted. But at least yes you can't be looked up directly, only if someone uses a databroker.

True, you don’t need to be impossible to be fingerprinted. If someone really wanted to track you manually using databrokers, be my guest :) But for most people here I think it’s about not being the easiest prey. And make the automatic and general algorithms hard to track you.
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