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It is interesting how strongly people have been blaming facebook for the worlds problems but as soon as tech companies start to clean up their services its sudd

It is interesting how strongly people have been blaming facebook for the worlds problems but as soon as tech companies start to clean up their services its suddenly too much use of power.

pmiller2 6y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I blame Facebook for a lot of issues in the modern world, and I'm glad tech companies are finally doing something about some of them.
- SulfurHexaFluri 6y ago
  I think facebook has made the right call by cleaning up this mess but I do wonder if a corporation is the right one to be making these calls. Tech companies now hold more power than most governments which makes me wonder if we should start having public elections on who gets to run them. Or maybe they should be tied in more with the government. If someone starts inciting violence on facebook maybe it should be the job of the police to deal with this rather than some moderator sweatshop.
- MrMan 6y ago
  Facebook is the problem in a lot of ways (not all). Making hate viral to millions of people in a decentralized network is an innovation that I am not happy about. What to do about it I don't know and haven't heard many convincing arguments. I do think European style bans on hate speech might be a positive change. Europe has a lot of weird cultural things as a result of their imperialist and colonial past, but their recent experience with genocide and war does lend them some credibility in terms of how they have adapted. I think they have mostly open societies with high quality of life and not many compromises in terms of "liberty". I equate liberty with overall quality of life, not the liberty of individuals to abnegate societal obligations. So bans on hate speech, and attendant penalties, I see precedent where little harm has been done but a lot of harm has been mitigated.

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It is interesting how strongly people have been blaming facebook for the worlds problems but as soon as tech companies start to clean up their services its sudd

by SulfurHexaFluri 6y ago

It is interesting how strongly people have been blaming facebook for the worlds problems but as soon as tech companies start to clean up their services its suddenly too much use of power.

pmiller2 6y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I blame Facebook for a lot of issues in the modern world, and I'm glad tech companies are finally doing something about some of them.
- SulfurHexaFluri 6y ago
  I think facebook has made the right call by cleaning up this mess but I do wonder if a corporation is the right one to be making these calls. Tech companies now hold more power than most governments which makes me wonder if we should start having public elections on who gets to run them. Or maybe they should be tied in more with the government. If someone starts inciting violence on facebook maybe it should be the job of the police to deal with this rather than some moderator sweatshop.
- MrMan 6y ago
  Facebook is the problem in a lot of ways (not all). Making hate viral to millions of people in a decentralized network is an innovation that I am not happy about. What to do about it I don't know and haven't heard many convincing arguments. I do think European style bans on hate speech might be a positive change. Europe has a lot of weird cultural things as a result of their imperialist and colonial past, but their recent experience with genocide and war does lend them some credibility in terms of how they have adapted. I think they have mostly open societies with high quality of life and not many compromises in terms of "liberty". I equate liberty with overall quality of life, not the liberty of individuals to abnegate societal obligations. So bans on hate speech, and attendant penalties, I see precedent where little harm has been done but a lot of harm has been mitigated.