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Does this justify legislation that bans algorithmic content based on outrage?

• resource_waste 2y ago
  10 years ago I was an Anarchist and would think this is overreach. Today, I realize we are animals driven by biology that don't get to control our environment. We do need laws in-place to prevent Strong Powers(big companies with psychology/marketing departments) from exploiting Weak Powers(individuals). There is some group of people that accept the status quo, think that humans have perfect freewill and can resist the social pressure of Blue Bubbles or temptations of clickbait. I think these people need to be ignored. They are idealists, which isnt particularly helpful.
  • seventytwo 2y ago
    I couldn’t agree more.
  • slowmovintarget 2y ago
    Had to look up "Blue Bubbles" because I wasn't exactly sure what you meant by that. Searching only on the term was worthless because there's now an app named that. Search results were all ads for it, or for the subreddit. The phrase "social pressure of Blue Bubbles" led to discussions of Apple's blue text for iMessage users and green for standard SMS messages. Is that what you were referring to? I think we need something both milder and stronger than ignored. I think we need concrete and rational arguments to persuade them away from such idealism. The biggest problem I have for those people in my life is they're often angry when such discussion come up...