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It's not people posting divisive content that is the big problem, the big problem is divisive content getting all the eyeballs, causing people to (due to comple
by lostmyoldone 6y ago
It's not people posting divisive content that is the big problem, the big problem is divisive content getting all the eyeballs, causing people to (due to completely normal human psychology) to believe everyone either are completely against them, or completely with them, and nothing in between.
Even disregarding anything but mental and physical health, the consequences are significant and quite real.
No, they don't need to become the gatekeeper of all "bad things"(tm) the same way they protect us from accidentally gazing at a terrifying nipple, that would be preposterous, but they could probably try a little harder to not act completely opposite to their users best interest as often as they do.
Especially when that happens to be a significant fraction of all the people on earth, that's probably not too big of an ask?