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Well said. I wonder how long it will take legislation to catch up to the unregulated information highways that dominate so much of our national and global thoug
by SleekEagle 5y ago
Well said. I wonder how long it will take legislation to catch up to the unregulated information highways that dominate so much of our national and global thought and perceptions!
- gimme_treefiddy 5y agoWon’t the regulation force them to censor? I get not wanting corporations to moderate discourse, but I can’t help but feel they get shit from both ends. Fuck you if you censor, and fuck you if you don’t.
- SleekEagle 5y agoI don't think censorship is necessary given that it isn't the only way to address the problem of misinformation. For example, providing metrics on how trustworthy a source is by reasonable metrics isn't censorship, but providing information that's useful in gauging how much credibility to assign to a certain report. Do I think they should censor information? No. But we're all ill-informed with respect to almost all subjects, so knowing whether or not a climate report came from e.g. a group of Ivy-league researcher vs. ExxonMobil is important, and knowing whether or not information on evolution comes from PhD evolutionary biologists vs. the Young Earth Creationist Museum matters a lot. What I think we're seeing is the growing distrust of subject-matter experts, but only in select highly political domains. I understand what you said about pressure from both ends, but Facebook is a trillion dollar company with an extremely robust AI team. I'm sure they can figure out a solution, or at least come up with a gameplan on how to work their way towards one. I also understand a trepidation with respect to legislation considering the not infrequent tendency to under-legislate or over-legislate, but this is common in every area of law and eventually the pendulum swings slow down to a reasonable medium.