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I see no way that this power, first applied to uncontroversially-bad information, will ever be misused. What happened to "organise _the world's_ information, a

I see no way that this power, first applied to uncontroversially-bad information, will ever be misused. What happened to "organise _the world's_ information, and make it _accessible_ and useful"?

gameswithgo 6y ago
what happened is the trolls and insane people got all the clicks and it made the public dumber.
- evv555 6y ago
  Would that have happened if these platforms "organised _the world's_ information, and made it _accessible_ and useful" instead of using engagement driven filter bubbles?
  - kbrwn 6y ago
    Facebook would be #1 in online advertising and we'd be using Bing on our Windows Phones.
  - knzhou 6y ago
    Yes. This inevitably results in all mass-adopted systems, even messaging services where people just talk to each other. It's not the systems, it's the people.
criddell 6y ago
Just because that power can be misused doesn't mean they should never use it.
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