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This is not about upsides and downsides. The truth is execs in Twitter, Facebook and Youtube had no clue what upsides and downside would be produced by the syst
by op03 6y ago
This is not about upsides and downsides. The truth is execs in Twitter, Facebook and Youtube had no clue what upsides and downside would be produced by the system they created.
The happily took credit for the upsides and for the longest time, like almost a decade, laughed out of the room anyone talking about the downsides.
Such people are still in charge of these fucking companies.
- deeeeplearning 6y agoThere's a reason these people will come out and say they don't let their kids use the apps they work on...
- Nasrudith 6y agoThat luddite standard of "expected to know all upsides and downsides of something novel" bugs the royal crap out of me. It not only demands omniscience but implicitly assumes perfection of the status quo by not holding it to the same standards. To call forums for speech reckless is a very novel standard that back in the 90s and 00s would get you mocked as sounding like a third world dictator.