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Accessibility is a non-issue unless your intent is to become the morality police. You don't get to decide for others what speech they have access to. It's actua
by eyko 6y ago
Accessibility is a non-issue unless your intent is to become the morality police. You don't get to decide for others what speech they have access to. It's actually absolutely none of your business what conversations others are having, and what debates they're engaging in.
You can also ignore advertising and social media in very much the same way you ignore nudity. Hate speech is not "piped" into our eyes and ears. Is there lots of it? Yes. Are you forced to engage with it? No. You don't report your cousin Dave to the morality police for racist or sexist comments over the dinner table, despite the fact that you're less likely to avoid hearing it than the hate speech on social media.
- proactivesvcs 6y agoThing is, the big social media platforms are deciding what speech their products consume. The algorithms seem to be designed to feed into division and biases. It's absolutely no business what conversations others are having and yet this precise metric is being leveraged to abuse people into generating income. You and I can ignore social media but it seems to have caught an alarming majority in its wake. Add in misinformation and encouraging division and it's a troubling state of affairs, especially when it is proving to be so very profitable. I definitely agree that a morality police can only make things worse, but a fact police may help :-)