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People are thinking about this way too much in terms of personal data. I don't think this really is about that. Editorial control over what a significant fract
by creato 6y ago
People are thinking about this way too much in terms of personal data. I don't think this really is about that.
Editorial control over what a significant fraction of people see is significant power over those people. Even seemingly benign editorial actions could have serious effects.
Facebook and Twitter are clearly being pressured by all political sides to favor content they want favored and disfavor content they want disfavored. What does that look like when the CCP weighs in on what American TikTok users see? Maybe prioritizing posts about protests or just petty crime (even more so than the internet tends to do by itself)?
I think there are endless ways to get creative and subtle here that could cause problems.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoBingo. The conservative base on TikTok outnumbers the liberal base by nearly double.
- shadowgovt 6y agoThat runs counter to the Trump administration looking into banning it.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoHello. Half of what Trump says is to push a chess piece around the table where he wants it to go. You all think he's playing 2D checkers but he's really at Spock's chess level.
- shadowgovt 6y agoPlease. His algorithm isn't too hard to fathom. 1) Say whatever he feels like 2) If there's bad news, say something controversial to try and jam the news cycle. He's already had to back-peddle on claiming mail-in ballots increase voter fraud (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/08/04/trump-backtracks-mail-voting-florida-391373 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/...), probably because someone clued him in that the biggest user demographic for mail-in voting is the elderly, most of whom vote Republican.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoYour analysis of him is as shallow as you think he is.
- shadowgovt 6y agoNo deeper analysis is needed because he isn't deeper. He's a man in over his head in a job he never wanted, desperately trying to save his reputation. He has no idea how to do his job (as indicated by the number of EOs overturned by the Court). What he has is a cult of personality that sucks in the gullible. It was effective at selling sub-par steaks, but serves him less well as head of the US Executive for successfully running his office. If you believe he's playing some kind of hyper-chess feel free to provide evidence.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoTodd Scheller has an excellent analysis with citations showing your point to be wrong: https://www.quora.com/How-many-Obama-Executive-Orders-were-struck-down-by-the-courts-compared-to-Trump-Executive-Orders https://www.quora.com/How-many-Obama-Executive-Orders-were-s...
- shadowgovt 6y agoAh yes, Quora, that bastion of well-researched, trusted facts. But in reality, Trump has EOs overturned significantly more than Presidents in recent history, with over 60 adverse rulings. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-real-reason-president-trump-is-constantly-losing-in-court/2019/03/19/f5ffb056-33a8-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-r... More importantly, I don't know what a list of Obama EOs struck down by courts has to do with Trump's Presidency. It's entirely possible they were both bad at being President. Trump's failures are particularly interesting, to my mind, because of how often he torpedoes himself; he may have pulled off ending protections for immigrants from Haiti, Sudan, and Central American countries if he hadn't chosen to call them "shithole countries," opening up the spectre of his EO being racially motivated. It's not 4D chess; he says what he wants and doesn't notice that a President is held accountable to his own words. it'd be funny watching his self-torpedoing buffoon act if he wasn't the President of the United States of America.