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Re:Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible w... by amelius on Monday December 05, 2016 @04:17AM (#13104272)
> Ignorance is killing democracy.

No it is worse. Misinformation is killing democracy. And that's exactly where Facebook is a problem.

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Re:Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible w... by mbrock on Monday December 05, 2016 @06:41AM (#13104787)
Basically you might as well say that's why the internet is a "problem".
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Re:Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible w... by grive on Monday December 05, 2016 @08:07AM (#13105081)
Not Internet, the Web. And not the web, but the way we have started using it.

We sell analytics and data about people. This data is more valuable the more people there are to sell. This popularity metric will thus foster popularity contests, where inane content and disinformation is put forward. This is the problem.

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Re:Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible w... by jacobush on Monday December 05, 2016 @07:16AM (#13104908)
Yes, but internet is still decentralised and a pretty NEUTRAL technology. Facebook has a board of directors.
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