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Perhaps We Should Kill The Internet?
Jan 18, 2021, 8:15 PM
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This piece was written by a smart guy in April 2018.
It actually gets to the heart of what everyone is complaining about, which are the network effects of delusionists, narcissists, and sociopaths. Their voices are amplified 2? ? N ? 1, where N is the number of participants. h/t to Mr. Reed.
How can we get the best leaders or have a more reasoned discourse when majority of decent, honorable participants are drowned out by so few loudmouth propagandists?
"Instead of liberating us from the biases of the educated among us, the Internet has saddled us with the biases of the unreasoned among us."
"We’ve now entered the era of “lock-on” news feeds that nourish the addiction to misinformation. Instead of looking for counterexamples to our worldview, we allow others to filter them, thereby ensuring the growth of collective ignorance and prejudice. This surfaces in subtle ways these days. Publishers hire selectivity readers to ensure that readers aren’t accidentally offended. Amazon has review Nazis to limit reviewer bias: claiming a product is far superior to one product but inferior to another is verboten. These companies have not only diminished the value of free expression, they’ve lost sight of the criticality of the First Amendment to free societies."
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2018/04/mco2018040070/13rRUB7a1aG
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Re: Perhaps We Should Kill The Internet?
Jan 18, 2021, 9:05 PM
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About 60 years ago, Edward R Murrow said this about the Television:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VClXwECU-dQ&ab_channel=murrowcollege
I think the very same thing applies to today's computer (& telephones).
Let us not blame the device for the shortcomings of the human beings using it.
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Re: Perhaps We Should Kill The Internet?
Jan 18, 2021, 9:45 PM
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Bias,
Personal responsibility - I like it!
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Heisman Winner [111532]
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I think a basic IQ test should suffice
Jan 18, 2021, 9:07 PM
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The problem is it would kill off half the subscribers in the mange.
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Oculus Spirit [81058]
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There's no test to have kids.
Jan 18, 2021, 11:19 PM
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I'm not sure how you could mandate one to use facebook.
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It wouldn't be the worst idea.
Jan 18, 2021, 9:24 PM
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Remember when having every school kid logged onto the internet was going to make them smarter?
Conservatives, for all our mistakes, are right about this consistent message: When the opportunity is to centralize decision making, dont.
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Re: Perhaps We Should Kill The Internet?
Jan 19, 2021, 8:05 AM
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Yep, right on. Watch the Social Dilemma on Netflix. A lot of the same type of message, and it goes into some of the human factors elements used in the apps to keep people addicted...
https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224
People who only get their news from the MSM and social media feeds are doomed to be giant liberals. I don't blame them for that, but I blame them for not listening to reasonable people that tell them the MSM is completely left-wing. If you are one of those people, I plead with you to try some alternate news feeds.
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Re: Perhaps We Should Kill The Internet?
Jan 19, 2021, 12:38 PM
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Nc
The Social Dilemma is well worth everyone's time.
The MSM is not nearly as far left as you like to think/portray that it is. I refer you once again to the attached graphic about media bias and accuracy. It that doesn't match up somewhat with your perceptions, perhaps it is YOU who are askew
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Oculus Spirit [81892]
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(he is, it's hilariously ironic)***
Jan 19, 2021, 12:39 PM
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I'm not a fan of blaming things for people's behavior.
Jan 19, 2021, 8:11 AM
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Guns don't cause violence, back seats of cars don't cause teen pregnancies, etc.
###### people are going to find a way to do ###### things. They'll adapt to the weapons at their disposal.
It's up to good people to make those things better or work to outnumber the bad folks.
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