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They have no idea what's going on. I travel a lot and the number of countries where society has gone nuts is unbelievable. There was a time when people who ha
by gop77 9y ago
They have no idea what's going on.
I travel a lot and the number of countries where society has gone nuts is unbelievable.
There was a time when people who had experience working a crisis stepped in and worked it. As in things moved forward towards better solutions.
Now they spend their entire day being distracted and reacting to noise generated on social media by people who have no experience doing anything other than making noise.
If Youtube/Twitter/FB et al don't handle and own all these unintended consequences in the same manner they do software bugs we are headed to Chinese style network control very soon.
- willvarfar 9y agoThe article is saying that they have a good idea what is going on but have no incentive to "clean up" the platform and detect "fake" content.
- altcognito 9y agoSimilar to climate change, we're not doing a very good job surveying the systemic effects of allowing "unvetted" (to borrow a term) groups and individuals which now have outsized on free society. Foreign countries now have the ability to silently carpet bomb citizenry with subversive messages that eat at our ability to effectively govern.
- mc32 9y agoThe squeaky wheel gets the grease rather than the nail that sticks out gets hammered.