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I'd love to know Sam's views on his particular responsibility in addressing this as a member of Reddit's board. If the "attention epidemic" and risk of hacking
by shostack 9y ago
I'd love to know Sam's views on his particular responsibility in addressing this as a member of Reddit's board.
If the "attention epidemic" and risk of hacking people's attention is high, Reddit is likely to be just as culpable in that as Facebook. Further, Reddit has shown to be ripe for weaponizing by hostile foreign nations given the Russian meddling. This has not gotten nearly the attention it warrants, and many feel Reddit has done nothing particularly worthwhile to address the matter.
So in an age where algorithms optimize to capture attention for the benefit of platform owners, and platform owners are incentivized by ad revenue where the advertisers may have malicious social engineering motives, or where the platform is seen as an attack vector outside of ads, what is the responsibility (legally and morally) or platform owners and investors in doing something about this?