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>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
by 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"