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More virtue signaling for the incoming administration. Reddit, Facebook, and most of all Twitter need to take a hard look at themselves and role they played in
by diveanon 6y ago
More virtue signaling for the incoming administration.
Reddit, Facebook, and most of all Twitter need to take a hard look at themselves and role they played in all of this.
Waiting until after an armed insurrection occurs is not good enough.
- nomel 6y agoIf they used a privately hosted forum, should that forum owner take some of the blame? Would about IRC server operator? What about an iMessage group? Most of this was probably made discoverable by google searches. Should google take some of the blame? I don't understand why we have to blame the means of communication and method of discoverability rather than the, most likely mentally disturbed, people. Claiming that a very small group of unsane people bust into the capitol is some fundamental problem seems hyperbolic and reactionary to me.
- diveanon 6y agoIf someone used my forum to organize terrorist attacks then I should be held accountable. If google searches, facebook groups, twitter recommendations, and subreddjts drove people towards content that radicalized them and continued to reinforce that radicalization then those companies should be held accountable. I used to work in biomed, and if an algorithm I wrote resulted in people dying I would expect to face consequences. I don't see why the largest companies on the same planet aren't held to a similar standard while pushing for "engagement".