Social media and trypophobia

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Social media doesn’t bring us together. It rips us apart.

“What should we think when tech CEOs confess they don’t want kids in their family anywhere near the products they’re pushing on everyone else? It sure sounds like even they think this stuff might be the new nicotine.”

 
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“Yet it’s AI-powered platforms that have been caught amplifying fakes and accelerating hates and incentivizing sociopathy.

And it’s AI-powered moderation systems that are too stupid to judge context and understand nuance like humans do. (Or at least can when they’re given enough time to think.)”
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This reminds me of the moderation here on CAF. Especially the part about incentivizing sociopathy :crazy_face:
 
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I read that entire rollercoaster of an article, which is saying something in itself. VERY well-written, but I do wish it was much shorter. Would it be wrong to say that a couple of citizen’s court cases demanding their right to privacy might solve some of this?
 
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Daisy said:
Would it be wrong to say that a couple of citizen’s court cases demanding their right to privacy might solve some of this?
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What country’s legal system are you talking about?

In USA, there is very little “right to privacy” and I don’t know what you would mean by a “citizen’s court” case.
 
Daisy said:
Would it be wrong to say that a couple of citizen’s court cases demanding their right to privacy might solve some of this?
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I don’t think it’s a right to privacy issue. I think it’s a liability issue for the companies that provide the environment where the content exists. It’s a largely unregulated environment that people just aren’t used to yet.

People are being manipulated by the millions, and they don’t even know it. It’s not just Facebook’s algorithms either, that’s just a small part of cyber’s problems. Governments, organized crime, capitalists and opportunists are all getting in on the action. It’s basically complete chaos with a little bit of reactionary bandaging when something goes so wrong that the public somehow gets wind of it.

If I were the US Attorney General, I would declare the cyber domain to be a public health hazard. It is obvious at this point that the cyber domain is causing more harm to people than good. I say that not because of what I’m reading online, but because of what I’m seeing it do to people that I know.
 
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Daisy:
Would it be wrong to say that a couple of citizen’s court cases demanding their right to privacy might solve some of this?
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What country’s legal system are you talking about?

In USA, there is very little “right to privacy” and I don’t know what you would mean by a “citizen’s court” case.
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I’m talking about the US. But I framed it as a question because I honestly don’t know the answer to it and am really not thoroughly educated on governmental and legal procedures. Now, wasnt Roe vs. Wade a citizen’s case which effected the protection of abortion as deemed by the Supreme Court under the Constitutional right of privacy? I believe so.
 
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I don’t think it’s a right to privacy issue. I think it’s a liability issue for the companies that provide the environment where the content exists.
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Ok, but we might attack this infringement by means of our constitutional right to privacy. IOW, if these businesses did not have access to all of our personal data, then we wouldn’t be swimming in a sea of manipulation.
 
I hear what you’re saying, but most sites are open to anyone at the click of the mouse.
Nobody drags anyone to FB, HuffPost or CAF
 
pianistclare said:
I hear what you’re saying, but most sites are open to anyone at the click of the mouse.
Nobody drags anyone to FB, HuffPost or CAF
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I’m fine with bubbling myself. But I do have problems when so-called open platforms start manipulating my searches and feeding me their views. I suppose youtube’s ban of certain videos can’t really be solved by a viewer’s right to privacy. A lot of it is marketing, though. And that type of manipulation could maybe be solved by private searching.
 
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