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> Additionally, the web is facing critical internet health issues, seemingly intractable due to the centralization of power in the hands of a few large companie
by Eridrus 8y ago
> Additionally, the web is facing critical internet health issues, seemingly intractable due to the centralization of power in the hands of a few large companies who have economic interests in not solving these problems
I think that line is a very popular hot take, that all these platforms want extremist content, because it's good for clicks & ad impressions, but it's very clearly not the case. All these platforms are quite incentivized to prevent all these problems, it's just that these are hard problems to solve to begin with, and the definition of extremist content/hate speech/etc is a political minefield.
- fnord123 8y ago>I think that line is a very popular hot take, that all these platforms want extremist content, because it's good for clicks & ad impressions Where do you read that? I thought the hot take was that they want people to be in a perpetual state of pearl clutching but not actual extremist content.
- Eridrus 8y agoI mean, this is exactly what the article says "companies who have economic interests in not solving ... Hate speech, harassment and other attacks on social networks". Maybe your definition of extremism does not include hate speech, but mine does.
- fnord123 8y agoSure maybe that's where we differ. For me hate speech is not extremism at all. Still odious. But its the difference between "GroupX is smelly and dumb and not welcome" and "All GroupX living in AreaY must die, and here's how we're going to do it"