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Re:NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could ... by z0r on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @12:43AM (#15447341)
I don't think any company should take on the role of parenting (presumably) grown ups, or worse yet children. I don't appreciate the idea that because an individual parent might teach their children morals and the social contract (nevermind the freedom individual parents have to raise their children according to their own subtle ethical codes) that it would be appropriate for large internet services to do the same for their users with machine learning.

It should remain with the people to argue with each other and change their views, not with black box magic woven into the communication medium.

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Re:NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could ... by otterley on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @02:01AM (#15447593)
Business are groups of people. They may collectively feel they can work together to advance society in a positive direction; not every business wants to be amoral and purely capitalist. As long as they’re not breaking the law, that seems to me to be a good thing.
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