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Kettle, meet Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Reddit, HN.
by Scapeghost 6y ago
Kettle, meet Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Reddit, HN.
- dfischer 6y agoIndeed. Again there’s no question the attack vectors - however dismissing it as “kettle” or “them too” solves nothing and contributes to making the situation worse. Every comment I make is being downvoted yet there’s a critical point that’s either entirely dismissed as insignificant because others are doing it too or divorced from the ability to reason about information warfare and it’s implications. Oh well at least I tried.
- CraigJPerry 6y agoThat’s not really what’s happening though. People are reading your premise that tiktok is a viable mechanism for influencing behaviour of its users, they are then pointing out far bigger examples of the ability you cite (Facebook, Google, Twitter) to which you say that’s different and we need to focus on tiktok because good reasons and not because china but i cant elaborate on good reasons. At which point you’re being disingenuous.
- dfischer 6y agoI never said to focus on TikTok. I’m saying they aren’t mutually exclusive at all.
- nicoburns 6y agoAnd particularly Instagram, Snapchat for the younger generation.
- dfischer 6y agoAnd add every single site that has user generated content. If an algorithm can influence the behavior of the users, it’s being done at a state level.