cokeandsympathy

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by cokeandsympathy 9y ago
> Were kind of seeing a kind of trend where every new media invention goes though a cycle of hype and fear towards a new normal and usually a new political and cultural structure. And i suspect that a lot of the "fear" is at le
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by cokeandsympathy 9y ago
Get out of here with that both sides the same bullshit. Wheeler was an industry man, but the the Obama administration fought to preserve net neutrality and Obama supported classifying ISPs as utilities. Campaign donations and lobbying are
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by cokeandsympathy 9y ago
While there's a good amount of outrage in some online niches, I don't think Net Neutrality has been on the radar of the general public. A lot of friends and family I've spoken to over the past few weeks don't understand
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by cokeandsympathy 9y ago
What do you do then when millions of others fail to take that responsibility? Do we have a responsibility to build a system that encourages people to take responsibility for themselves and others or that eliminates means by which some are l
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by cokeandsympathy 9y ago
You might want to check out some of the criticism advanced by people such as Tristan Harris on the tension between the user behaviors that tech companies optimize their product design, and the goals users hope to accomplish through their us
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by cokeandsympathy 9y ago
The point though is that companies act to maximize 'user engagement', a goal which may be at odds with what users actually want to get out of a product or service. Whatever they can do to get just 5% more views or clicks or time o
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by cokeandsympathy 9y ago
The current aim at Facebook book is to harvest as much of the world's attention as possible to resell to advertisers. Users are not it's customers, the businesses that pay it to advertise are. It's primary goal is to suck you
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by cokeandsympathy 9y ago
It's turning a game into a skinner box designed to extract as much money as possible from those who buy the game. It operates on the same basic principles as slot machines.
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by cokeandsympathy 9y ago
What did them in for me was the insistence on creating usernames which could not be hid. It ruined the localized aspect of the anonymity by focusing on the person, creating a power-user shit-posting environment instead of letting content ar
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by cokeandsympathy 9y ago
Is the problem posed to the environment from plastics greater than the human benefit from their use?
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by cokeandsympathy 10y ago
A difference though is that the time limit between pixel placing introduced opportunity cost and provided a means of testing strength of preference. People were forced to make trade-offs between creating the things they wanted to see and ce