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It's interesting how prone the major social networks seem to be to outright scams. You can find plenty of cult leaders and fake cancer treatments on YouTube, Ho
by aaron-lebo 9y ago
It's interesting how prone the major social networks seem to be to outright scams. You can find plenty of cult leaders and fake cancer treatments on YouTube, Holocaust denial material on Reddit, etc.
Of course those companies have every right to keep that material up, but it's strange how those scams are tolerated when other stuff is taken down. The pure scale of it all probably makes those scams more effective than they used to be as well. You don't gotta sell your miracle water from town to town anymore, you just make a YouTube video and send it out to a million people. Cryptocurrency scams really take advantage of this.
Not sure why those companies don't care about users getting taken advantage of, but they don't. Sometimes it feels like our economy is based on scams all the way down.
- ghostbrainalpha 9y agoBut maybe there is a positive side to this... 50 years ago this scam would have been targeted at middle aged people, in the prime of their scam detecting abilities. These gen-z kids are getting hit with this stuff earlier, but will possibly spend more of their lives as savy, post scammed individuals. So the exposure leads to greater societal intelligence. And because the scam is aimed at the young, the amount of money they are losing is generally in the hundreds, not thousands of dollars, and has less of an effect on their overall quality of life or their retirements.
- mrguyorama 9y agoNot everyone who gets scammed learns. Many people become "rubes" again and again.