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Re: Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

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Post by senordevnyc »

jjulius wrote: post #203
ktm5j wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you serious? He didn't answer my question, he jumped all over me judging my choices and insinuated that I don't get enough real life human interaction.. so yes that's my response.

Yes, OP did - the alternative to social media is not more social media, which is a view shared by many. OP didn't judge you, they stated their opinion and asked you to soul search. If you truly feel that judged and offended, and I say this with kindness, perhaps you would do well to ask yourself why.

Haha, they didn't say they were offended, they just rejected the (clearly judgmental and off-topic) advice. They specifically asked for a Facebook alternative, including for online-only social groups they find important, so the advice to "just do real human connection without social media" is pretty useless. And shit like "Is it so important to share a photo with strangers?" is clearly judgmental and dismissive.

Loved your little passive aggressive encouragement to look inward though. So kind.

Re: Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

nemomarx wrote: post #238
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Social networks are cancer. Just ban the lot of them and move on I've been pushing for the under-14 ban, which is popular in almost every country with polling, and holy shit is it a pigpen to wade through.

Just find a good technical solution that doesn't require handing over your id, yeah?

> find a good technical solution that doesn't require handing over your id, yeah?

In a perfect world, sure. In the real world, the political demand for a solution to this problem means we'll get a lot of crummy solutions.

Re: Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

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Post by marricks »

philipallstar wrote: post #48
0x5FC3 wrote: post #18

Social media companies post record earnings year after year from their ads business while increasingly proving to be harmful to society. They do the bare minimum in terms of content moderation and bots while priming the algorithms to maximize revenue. The good ol' privatized profits, socialized harm model. In a just world, would social media platforms be taxed higher on corporate revenue and how would that pan out? M…

This is the exact opposite of what you think. The problem is the governments in those places, and not the private company. The private company would gladly connect everyone.

One could (naively) hope that goliath corporations used their massive lobbying power for good. There was a time, long, long, ago, Google refused to operate in China because it refused to censor itself.

Since no matter how much power they have they won't behave good let's go ahead and regulate the shit out of them and tear them into tiny mangable pieces.

If we had a thousand different smaller federated platforms it would be harder for governments to impose rules on them anyways.

Re: Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

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Post by gigatree »

0x5FC3 wrote: post #18

Social media companies post record earnings year after year from their ads business while increasingly proving to be harmful to society. They do the bare minimum in terms of content moderation and bots while priming the algorithms to maximize revenue. The good ol' privatized profits, socialized harm model. In a just world, would social media platforms be taxed higher on corporate revenue and how would that pan out? M…

What is this “just world” of which you speak?

Re: Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

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Post by senordevnyc »

bogota wrote: post #59

Is HN just reddit now? The comments on this are beyond stupid and add nothing of value or thought.

It's gotten almost unbearable in the last couple years. The amount of hate, cynicism, bitterness, etc. towards almost everything (currently AI, capitalism, anyone successful, etc) is just ridiculous. It's sad, I've been a heavy user for almost twenty years now, and I find it borderline intolerable most days.
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