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by concinds 4y ago
The problem is that the U.S.'s overgrown intelligence superstructure was in charge of these efforts. The leading agency, the Department of Homeland Security, was established to fight terrorism abroad, and is now trying to regulate publ
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Governments that use corporations as their agents are strongly disincentivized from properly regulating and breaking up these same corporations. Ending lobbying, closing the revolving door, and setting up strong boundaries between governmen
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Not the parent, and I don't know about therapists, but criticism of the "mental illness" model is pretty widespread. You'll come across those arguments if you review scholarly criticism of the DSM-5, for example the Brit
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It's sad that this doesn't get the same attention as when Apple tried something similar. Google's not using PhotoDNA (a preexisting hash-based list). They're using flawed image recognition algorithms to try to recognize
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Looks like that fixed it. Thanks!
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It's not about supporting or tolerating views, it's about empathizing with people who reached the wrong conclusion based on positive intentions. It makes me uncomfortable to write people off when their pain is legitimate. From wha
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May not be a panacea, but it's the healthiest option. > Misinformation spreads insanely fast on WhatsApp, even after limiting Group thread size and # of forwards. That's true, but it's relatively easier to solve: really vi
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The speed of your response indicates you haven't read the links. You want him to publish his contract? Ooops, he tried that. It showed that Kanye's deal is "standard" for the industry, which doesn't mean it's i
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I assume there's something wrong with the contracts, because it's obvious to anyone following the industry, and it's been widely and thoroughly covered for decades (see links at the bottom or search the press, university publ
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> It turns out to be buried under a "more" menu, so I maintain that this is a niche feature that you'd need to go out of your way to suffer. I never turned it on or tapped on it, and don't follow any topics. It still
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I'm Jewish (feel free to believe me or not) and I disagree. I choose to ignore the overt bigotry and focus on addressing the underlying distrust. What he said represents quite common black nationalist views and were espoused by most Bl
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Levine was very prominent among conservative media, not due to being trans, but due to being a prominent part of Biden's Covid response alongside Fauci. It wasn't a random targeting.
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> Then, there are things like the Taliban, Russia, China, etc which have at times actively cheered on social media about the death of Americans or an American defeat Soleimani. He helped the U.S. fight the Taliban. The U.S. later killed
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by concinds 4y ago
The problem is that reddit clusters based on topic, rather than social group. If I'm a bad state actor who wants to influence America on a mass-scale, I buy a bunch of accounts, and buy upvotes, and can shift the hivemind. Or I just in
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The way I'd solve it is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33377423 Basically, more siloed converations would ironically create a better "public town square", because it would reduce the need for mode
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Their platforms are siloed off. The point of a mega app is that it's not siloed off; the reels, videos, DMs and tweets would be part of the same experience, and rely on the same usernames, hence the moat.
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by concinds 4y ago
Fair enough. I still think conservatives (and liberals, for different reasons) are vastly overestimating how much Musk will protect free speech. Slurs will obviously still be banned (likely automatically; I don't see why the platform r
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Twitter ignored multiple reports of personal threats directed at me specifically (involving concentration camps and general death threats, etc.) "This tweet doesn't violate Twitter rules." People I didn't know, who I had
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The term was popularized by leftists, but coopted by corporations and oligarch-media who have emptied the word of its meaning, turning it into a buzzword that is said in every press release and at every opportunity. The news of Ms Smith bei
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by concinds 4y ago
It seems you're coming at it from the other side. If it were up to me, I'd remove the "lock" feature that seems too much like a struggle session (as noted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33371795
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I'm not referring to the "X liked this tweet" feature, which is from my circle. Twitter added a Topics feature, where it promotes popular tweets. I'll often see random tweets with >100k likes inserted into my feed,
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Sentiment analysis can solve the first. If the algo notices that someone only engages negatively with another cluster, cut it off; they're not entitled to pollute that. And the second point was a mostly abstract intellectual debate in
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by concinds 4y ago
Right. The best balance is to be more lenient on speech moderation, but have fewer algorithmic recommendations and push less "controversial" or popular content onto users' feeds.
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You may not have noticed, but they've been posting that for years.
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Let's avoid disinfo. Neither account was banned to begin with. Both accounts were restricted, which could be lifted after the user deletes the offending tweet. It's overwhelmingly likely Musk had nothing to do with either case (an
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Fair, but I doubt that would be in China's interest. For example, we haven't seen China try to do that with Apple Podcasts, Apple News or (less significantly) Apple Music content that might be anti-China. I'm not seeing a tra
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I don't buy that at all. Twitter has been able to withhold tweets from certain countries (e.g. EU) based on local laws, for many years. They can just keep doing that with China. You can't be held hostage if you just comply with th
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by concinds 4y ago
Most people are focused on censorship/content issues, but I really think the X.com "mega app" vision is the most significant part of this. It'll be hard to gain a foothold in those markets, and there'll be antitrust
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The simple (and inevitable) solution is for some accounts or tweets to be withheld in certain countries. No company can avoid complying with the law; but they can't be forced to take down a tweet worldwide either.
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Twitter's had a few technical issues today (huh.) and I've had the same with other tweets. If you reload you should see it.

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