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There are two problems with social media: 1) Group Isolation. You can be banned from groups and not the platform. This allows for the notion of being toxic in
by BobbyJo 6y ago
There are two problems with social media:
1) Group Isolation. You can be banned from groups and not the platform. This allows for the notion of being toxic in a specific context, but not in the broader context, which I don't believe is possible. Either you are a toxic user, or not. If not, disagreeing with the zeitgeist of a specific group should be a welcome part of the groups discourse, otherwise the group only serves to radicalize.
2) Free for all discourse. If everyone gets an unlimited platform, the loudest and most absurd will speak the most, and subsequently be heard the most. You need level, artificial, limits to how much a single person can contribute to any given discussion in order for it to be balanced.
When switching from a physical medium to discuss things, to a digital medium, we lost key limiting factors which helped free speech be an effective way for society to operate. You can only yell so loud and at so many people on a street corner, and you can only avoid hearing others' opinions so much when leaving your house. The internet has done away with both of those, and an ideal platform for discussion needs some mechanism of providing both.