meekmockmook

Well, that's okay. I'll be able to buy acid at Walgreens in 15 years anyway.

They didn't ban the dictators and warlords who preach genocidal rhetoric every day. They didn't ban the constant death threats from teenagers against each other and random celebrities they felt like canceling that week. They didn't ban the people who coordinated to loot a drug store in my neighborhood even though I reported them. They didn't ban rioters in Chicago who live streamed torching businesses. They didn't ban people who were literally convicted of murder.

But they sure got together fast to put up billboards in destroyed neighborhoods bragging about how they helped elevate protests. And they sure were proud of coordinating against right wing wackos in DC.

TOS are never enforced consistently and GAFA is a neoliberal technocratic echo chamber that feigns social progressivism in order to coordinate anti-labor, anti-speech actions.

Silicon Valley has failed humanity. The governments of the world must ban targeted algorithms and initiate antitrust enforcement against GAFA immediately so this can never happen again.

No shit. It wasn't some broken, barely adopted start up that created this mess. It was the largest social platform in the world where this insanity spread for years. Break up GAFA with antitrust laws.

This can't continue the way it's been going.

Not just the IRL jannies, but the ones who police the platform too. They are contractors who make minimum wage and are exposed to horrors every single day with little psychological support.

Given our technological superiority over the majority of the world, why are states with far less resources vaccinating their populations so much faster? What can California do to streamline the process?

I am concerned this is being used as a pretext to ban encryption or push for backdoors.

Well, yeah, it's a dictatorship run by warlords.

It turns out that once you shut down the leader of the world's largest empire, every tinpot thug who fears losing their ability to control their citizens will shut down access to your platform. Whoda thunk? It has nothing to do with right and wrong and everything to do with realpolitik.

I saw Twitter's Public Policy team melting down about this. What did they expect? Pandora's Box has been opened

It's not apathy, it's fatigue. It's been 10 months of terror and horror and people use whatever mental tricks they can to stay sane.

I'm already seeing people who I otherwise politically agree with demand that Telegram be decrypted. Madness.

"Remember what the MPAA says; Horrific, Deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words"

I hope Baked Alaska is arrested.

My hot take? I think they are, yes. Information is literally everything.

You're 100 percent right.. i just think it's turned into a buzzword for "foreigners fighting amongst themselves" since the War on Terror began.

Tell that to my favorite ice cream shop that was smashed to bits on Melrose. Or the synagogues on Fairfax that were defiled. Or the vehicles all over DTLA that were set on fire. Or the man who died of smoke inhalation in a Minneapolis shop because he couldn't escape the flames.

At least 19 people died last summer. Don't downplay it.

I strongly disagree with Rowling's bizarre obsession but she faced months of death threats while Twitter looked the other way.

Of course I reported them. Nothing happened. Twitter was totally supportive of everything that happened in June. They even put up billboards bragging about how their platform helped protests grow. During a pandemic.

Yeah, the idea of GAFA as left wing is ludicrous. Sure, they plaster the internet with those ugly flat art cartoons of diverse people working together, (Corporate Memphis, I've learned the style is called) but they are anti-union, anti-competitive, and dedicated to growth at all cost, even if it means sectarian violence and loss of faith in democratic norms

I mean, I watched as people on Twitter and Facebook Live coordinated to torch one of my favorites neighborhoods in L.A. this summer. I saw looters tweet about breaking into a drug store in Sherman Oaks. You can't say it's just talk there. The damage to Melrose and DTLA had to have been in the tens of millions, if not more.

Twitter didn't actively moderate the President, who broke every single policy in their rulebook, until he lost power. An argument could easily be made that they selectively enforce from that alone, but I don't see Parler's lawyers using that argument lol

I have seen so many violent threats and incitements on Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram over the last 5 years that Parler could possibly make the case that they've been singled out, but I doubt it. They're just too unsympathetic of a plaintiff, imho.

That said, antitrust battles against Big Tech will dominate the next four years of economic policy, and rightfully so. GAFA is too big, too powerful, too manipulative, and needs to be brought to heel by every legal means necessary. The US government should also move to immediately outlaw targeted algorithmic advertising, which would make a huge impact on Big Tech's sectarian violence cashcow. (And yes, that's what this absolutely is. Sectarian violence is not just a term for non-Western countries.)

I think every college student should be entitled to a year of free partying by endowment funds to make up for this.

This is the ugly truth. Big Tech has monetized hate since 2014 by guiding users to extremist content. Their algorithms were designed to create profit above all. The cost? Democracy.

Do not let GAFA evade responsibility just because they're scrambling to pull the plug after 7 years of digital sectarian chaos.

>even moreso his largely-White and not >particularly race conscious base of support

This is baseless and such a slap in the face to the massive Latino, Middle Eastern, and Asian constituency in the Sanders coalition who worked their butts off to deliver him multiple states. I won't engage with any comments designed to inflame racial conflict and have flagged your post.

I'm a Sanders supporter and as Left as it gets but there is serious denial about the past 6 months of coordinated violence in major city cores from militant groups that claimed to speak for me. We have a problem with Big Tech and sectarian violence in this country no matter which way you look at it.

I am terrified that Trump supporters will respond to attacks on their ability to peacefully communicate with direct violence. We are entering an era where nobody believes in peace anymore.

So because Twitter and Facebook are larger and have more resources to stamp out illegal activity (which they still do poorly), that means the violence, death, and algorithmic propaganda should be acceptable to host on their platform vs another? Makes no sense.

Rules GAFA creates do not apply to themselves.

Facebook and Twitter have been hosting violent content for years and years. Facebook has contributed to mass murder. Twitter to countless suicides. Far more deaths can be attributed to their platforms than some goofy right wing startup. These are facts. Big Tech's scale and power means they can exempt themselves from the rules they create.

Are you really telling me Mark Zuckerberg has less blood on his hands than this John Matze guy? After literal genocides were coordinated via WhatsApp?