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Think of it like cancer. Identifying cancer, saying “You have a growth”, is one problem is medicine. There are ways of doing this and the cancer is just fine
by alextheparrot 9y ago
Think of it like cancer. Identifying cancer, saying “You have a growth”, is one problem is medicine. There are ways of doing this and the cancer is just fine being identified, it is none the wiser.
The moment you start to treat cancer is the moment you realize that identifying and treating the problem are leagues apart. Cancer mutates, cancer squirms, cancer goes incognito until the storm has blown over. By attempting to treat cancer, we’ve made it our adversary and it now will fight against our treatment. UV treatments cause mutations that the cancer might use to avoid further treatment, some drugs target specific causes of cancer which the cancer will then change to, and some treatments just kill the patient (Just as Twitter can’t just ban everyone). There is a balance that these large tech companies need to find just as a physician needs to determine the correct path.
I know this is a very optimistic view of the problem, but it aligns with my experience working, generally, in this space at similar scale.
- revelation 9y agoFor the longest time, spammers and fake accounts on Twitter were just a name with a long ass random number on the end. I guess that particular cancer hit a local optimum where Twitter was pumping its numbers aka misleading the shareholders.