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This is a great example of why platforms have so much power. If you look at TFA source, it's designed by someone else. And that dev is shilling for digital ocea

This is a great example of why platforms have so much power. If you look at TFA source, it's designed by someone else. And that dev is shilling for digital ocean, so I'm assuming that's the host. The internet is specializing, and hosting is a very hard specialization. TFA goes on to talk about how we don't think anymore, and we abdicate our choices to group think. Then they compare the social effect of telephones and FB. Then they go on to compare social media to an extinction level event. Hyperbole aside, I understand why people are so agitated. FB has been going for about 18 years now, I don't think this has been what's caused the unrest that we're seeing. Poor living conditions for the bottom half of society has given this legs. Yeah, we can kill of section 230 and make everyone choose from a list of pre-approved messages, but that is not a fix.

lovecg 6y ago
> Poor living conditions for the bottom half of society has given this legs. Debatable. There are many conflicting explanations about the current phenomenon and some of them talk about the role of the solid and relatively secure middle class that has lost something intangible, a sense of hope for the future, identity in other words. The more I try to read and understand the less clear it seems. But it’s safe to say any single minded narrative is probably too simplistic and doesn’t fully explain the whole reality.
incrudible 6y ago
Killing section 230 would force social media sites to choose between censoring according to their whims but then being on the hook for everything, or delegating censorship to the law. I think there is a valid argument to be made that Twitter is not like a TV station, but more like television itself. Suppose all television had a strong political bias into some direction, that would be an unacceptable situation.

lovecg 6y ago

> Poor living conditions for the bottom half of society has given this legs. Debatable. There are many conflicting explanations about the current phenomenon and some of them talk about the role of the solid and relatively secure middle class that has lost something intangible, a sense of hope for the future, identity in other words. The more I try to read and understand the less clear it seems. But it’s safe to say any single minded narrative is probably too simplistic and doesn’t fully explain the whole reality.

incrudible 6y ago

Killing section 230 would force social media sites to choose between censoring according to their whims but then being on the hook for everything, or delegating censorship to the law. I think there is a valid argument to be made that Twitter is not like a TV station, but more like television itself. Suppose all television had a strong political bias into some direction, that would be an unacceptable situation.