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Taking a step back from this specific extremely charged topic. I really hate the control that these companies have on public discourse. Not even a week ago ther
by friedman23 5y ago
Taking a step back from this specific extremely charged topic. I really hate the control that these companies have on public discourse. Not even a week ago there were articles about how facebook was used as a propaganda tool for the Vietnamese government? We really need to come up with a framework for how these communications platforms should be expected to moderate content and hold them to it.
- dane-pgp 5y agoSo governments should fine them if they don't block enough of the wrong opinions, and maybe also fine them if they block too many of the right opinions? But what happens if the staffing level needed to implement this is so high, and the costs so great, that only the biggest platforms (with the most eyeballs) can afford it? Or what if even they can't afford it? Either the government needs to ban online communications platforms altogether, or it needs to pay for its own moderators to implement its own censorship system, paid for out of general taxation. The government would find out at the next election how popular such policies are.
- friedman23 5y ago>So governments should fine them if they don't block enough of the wrong opinions, and maybe also fine them if they block too many of the right opinions? I never suggested that, I'm just pointing out that the status quo is terrible.
- raxxorrax 5y agoI think the status quo was far better when everything was left up, yes even propaganda (you are still subject to that too anyway). The new approach to ban anything controversial is ridiculously bad. Not a facebook user, but I would like that for the platforms I visit. Tiktok hides ugly people, Facebook hides ugly opinions. There is an argument that the former is less worse.