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It's very interesting to me that the shooter was basically a disgruntled user who complained that the platform discriminated against her and filtered her conten
by elvinyung 9y ago
It's very interesting to me that the shooter was basically a disgruntled user who complained that the platform discriminated against her and filtered her content.
I think this and Cambridge Analytica means that we're finally entering an era in which the public is conscientious of the fact that the massive power wielded by "big data" platforms, combined with the lack of transparency, has tangible adverse effects.
Hopefully this paves the way for more transparent (and beneficent) visibility into how such data is consumed and used, possibly by using public utility-like regulation [1][2].
[1] https://datasociety.net/events/databite-no-105-k-sabeel-rahman/ https://datasociety.net/events/databite-no-105-k-sabeel-rahm...
[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2986387 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2986387