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No, in fact, airlines have regulations, because big flying objects loaded with fuel are kinda seriously dangerous, and can kill (not in un*x console meaning of
by kingofhdds 9y ago
No, in fact, airlines have regulations, because big flying objects loaded with fuel are kinda seriously dangerous, and can kill (not in un*x console meaning of the word) lots of people at once. Very unlike social platforms, to be fair.
If regulations were introduced because of users not knowing what's good and beautiful, believe me, IT industry would be the most regulated thing in the world.
- zzzeek 9y agoairplanes are kind of unlike banks and trading markets too yet those are also heavily regulated.
- dangerlibrary 9y agoSort of. For now.
- aylmao 9y agoTo be fair, banks and trading markets affect the economy directly, which is a primary concern of the government.
- saas_co_de 9y ago> Very unlike social platforms a social media platform that can be used to organize and manipulate hundreds of millions of people globally is far more dangerous than any airplane.
- kingofhdds 9y agoDon't you think that this "organize and manipulate hundreds of millions of people globally" thing is a very blurry fear-laden sensationalist wording, which practically implies that social platforms possess some kind of hypnotic power to drive humans to do something on orders from secret circles?
- leereeves 9y agoNot at all. People are rather easy to manipulate, if you control the flow of information. Hypnotic power is not required. The formula is simple: promote emotionally powerful events that support your agenda, ignore events that inspire feelings counter to your agenda, deify supporters, demonize opponents, censor and ostracize anyone who speaks against the agenda. That formula has led nations to war, sent innocent people to prison, changed laws, overthrown governments, led to acts of terror, and caused hundreds of millions (perhaps billions) of deaths throughout history.
- kingofhdds 9y agoWell, with your formula you have just described work of media since invention of printing press. However, it doesn't work as easy as you described. Almost every political campaign tries to utilize this playbook, and absolute majority of of them fail. In fact, looking for the best historical examples fitting your argument one may find they generally comes from countries which strictly regulated their media.
- leereeves 9y agoFor full effect, it requires control of the flow of information. It has indeed often failed in America and other countries where people had relatively free access to information. But with digital information replacing newspapers, magazines, and TV, and with access to digital information being filtered through a handful of companies, those companies have immense power approaching that of governments that strictly regulate the media.