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Sorry but you can't hold someone else responsible for suicide unless they were specifically taunting and influencing someone to commit that act.
by chrisco255 6y ago
Sorry but you can't hold someone else responsible for suicide unless they were specifically taunting and influencing someone to commit that act.
- tathougies 6y agoBut they were specifically taunting them and influencing them. They put up posts with negative emotions. If just one post caused someone to commit suicide in the negative study group, and facebook showed it to them one time more than normal, they are culpable. Given the large N value, I find it difficult to believe this didn't happen.
- chrisco255 6y agoNegative emotions is already a significant chunk of social media in general and news media as well. So...very slippery slope definition for culpability you've got there.
- tathougies 6y agoThat's why social media feeds must use a dumb algorithm.
- cma 6y ago"Normal" is already determined by their AB testing which is already massive scale human experimentation.
- dane-pgp 6y agoI wonder at what point people will be able to say "It's not my fault, the Algorithm made me do it" and have that accepted as a valid excuse by a majority of society.
- generativenoise 6y agoIsn't that just the generalisation of 'it is only business' which the majority of society already accepts as a valid excuse for some pretty unethical behaviour.