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It's heavily regulated by parents.
by blocked_again 6y ago
It's heavily regulated by parents.
- scarface74 6y agoSo now we need the government to treat us all like children who are incapable of making our own rational decisions?
- blocked_again 6y agoYes. A government taking care of the citizens like parents do would be the best case scenario.
- scarface74 6y agoplease tell me you are being sarcastic.
- rmrfstar 6y agoscarface74, I have a labor-saving recommendation for you. Train a GPT-2 on Milton Friedman speeches and Heritage Foundation papers. Let that handle your comments. It will save you some time, and perhaps exhibit a little more civility.
- camgunz 6y agoPeople are sometimes capable of making rational decisions, but there's a whole industry (advertising, maybe you've heard of it) dedicated to working against that. Think of really any common sense regulation: - Can't use leaded gasoline - Can't use asbestos - Must wear a seat belt - Cannot drive while intoxicated If people always behaved well, we wouldn't need laws. They don't, so we do.
- scarface74 6y agoAll of those cases cause external harm to other people. Logging into FB and posting memes doesn’t.
- bobwaycott 6y agoI’ve known people who have been harmed by logging into FB. Sometimes it’s the memes, comments, DMs, and disinformation that causes harm. Sometimes it’s Facebook running a social experiment without consent to see if they can alter users’ moods.
- scarface74 6y agoSo now we are going to regulate every company that allows you to post memes and does A/B testing? Are we going to have the “Ministry of Truth” to make sure that no direct messages don’t have anything false?
- camgunz 6y agoHow can you say this seriously? Disinformation on FB had a huge impact on the 2016 election in the US.
- scarface74 6y agoSo do we want a “Central Department of Truth” to regulate Facebook?
- camgunz 6y agoWe don’t have to choose between Ayn Rand and George Orwell here. There are plenty of things FB can do to regulate the flow of information. A couple basic ideas are to apply the libel standard and to ensure the news feed isn’t full of hyperbolic echo chamber garbage. Stuff mainstream media outlets have been doing for decades, and has been effective. I feel like you’re not discussing in good faith; please try and be sympathetic to the idea that Facebook’s pursuit of ad revenue has an outsized negative effect on our society. You act as though nothing is wrong and any regulation we apply would be completely illiberal. Neither is true.
- scarface74 6y agoWould you like every platform that allows users to post comment to be held liable for the content the user posts - including HN?