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So sick of this. Trump wins an election and now reddit and all of social media made the world a worse place? Was this guy a PR guy for reddit like the former g

by qubax 8y ago

So sick of this. Trump wins an election and now reddit and all of social media made the world a worse place? Was this guy a PR guy for reddit like the former google PR woman lambasting google? What's with the childishness of these former tech people? Just because things haven't gone your way, you whine all day? Reddit and social has made the world a lot better place. LGBT people are better accepted in society because of reddit and social media. People from religions like mormons are better able to separate themselves from the tyranny of their religion. Atheists are more accepted. A black president, something almost unthinkable, was elected partly because of reddit and social media. I'd rather a world without nymag and journalists than a world without HN, reddit, etc. Ever since trump's election, we've had nonstop propaganda from the useless agenda pushing journalists and their media organizations. I wish these children would grow up already. The point of elections and life is that you win some and you lose some. Instead of giving preference to useless news and magazines, social media companies should simply ban then just to give them a taste of their own medicine. And what made reddit, twitter and much of social media so toxic isn't social media, it's journalists and media companies pushing their way into social media. Reddit became toxic when it succumb to media pressure to give journalists and media companies special preference. And when major default subs like politics, news, worldnews, etc got handed over to the media and the democratic party.

goalieca 8y ago
Perhaps this view of social media was naive during the Obama era. There was lots of hope about Obama using social media to get elected, the Arab spring using social media to democratize, etc. But in the end, we saw that social media has a major flaw and this flaw has been since exploited in very damaging ways by both corporations and nation states. This so-called flaw isn’t a big, it’s a design problem for which there’s no effective mitigation other than applying moderation on a massive scale.
- qubax 8y ago
  > This so-called flaw isn’t a big, it’s a design problem for which there’s no effective mitigation other than applying moderation on a massive scale. You are against corporations and nation states exploiting social media so you want corporations and nation states to moderate it? Doesn't make much sense. Odd that you aren't calling for the moderation of traditional media. All the wars, the arab spring issues and even trump isn't a social media issue, it's a traditional media issue. If you are truly worried about corporations and nation states exploiting something, you'd be up in arms over traditional media.

by qubax 8y ago

goalieca 8y ago

Perhaps this view of social media was naive during the Obama era. There was lots of hope about Obama using social media to get elected, the Arab spring using social media to democratize, etc. But in the end, we saw that social media has a major flaw and this flaw has been since exploited in very damaging ways by both corporations and nation states. This so-called flaw isn’t a big, it’s a design problem for which there’s no effective mitigation other than applying moderation on a massive scale.

qubax 8y ago
> This so-called flaw isn’t a big, it’s a design problem for which there’s no effective mitigation other than applying moderation on a massive scale. You are against corporations and nation states exploiting social media so you want corporations and nation states to moderate it? Doesn't make much sense. Odd that you aren't calling for the moderation of traditional media. All the wars, the arab spring issues and even trump isn't a social media issue, it's a traditional media issue. If you are truly worried about corporations and nation states exploiting something, you'd be up in arms over traditional media.