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It's killing me that no one is talking about authentic speech. We have very little. Social mediums (Twitter, HN, Instagram, Yelp, etc) must also support verifi
by specialist 6y ago
It's killing me that no one is talking about authentic speech. We have very little.
Social mediums (Twitter, HN, Instagram, Yelp, etc) must also support verified identities. Opt-in. Just like metafilter.com. With onerous penalties for impersonation.
The outrage machine apologists (select examples below) are trying to post-authentic inauthentic speech. Algorithms will save us.
This cannot work. Ever. Because the belligerents in the computational propaganda arms race will always overwhelm authenticity.
Tristan Harris - The Social Dilemma
Casey Newton - The Verge
Philip N. Howard - Lies Machines
Frédéric Filloux - News Quality Scoring Project
All tortured performant whining about censorship and bias and Section 230 is not helping. No one is going to take away anyone's favorite chew toy. The food fight over lies and bias will continue unabated.
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Said another way:
Journalism is real simple. Show your data, cite your sources, sign your name.
Support authentic journalism, with real infrastructure. Give people an alternative to the outrage machine.
- trevyn 6y agoThere is a flaw in your argument: Anonymous journalism can be perfectly valuable if it can be corroborated by other means.
- specialist 6y agoYou think authentic and inauthentic speech are mutually exclusive? Why? Because slippery slope? So I can't have any authentic speech ever because someone might want to remain anon. What am I missing here? On the internet, no one knows you're a dog. We are all anon. There is no verifiable authentic speech. Would you trust unsigned apps? How much science is done anonymously? We insist that websites are authenticated (using HTTPS). But not Freedom Speeches™. Totally different. Authenticating any speech whatsoever is... Is what? How does authenticated speech harm any one? How?