Re:Three months of content moderation for Facebook in Berlin
by cgmg on Monday January 29, 2018 @10:19AM
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> People got sick before the great flu pandemic of 1912, therefore the flu was not responsible for the 1912 flu pandemic.
That's not the right analogy. This is closer to what you said:
Human epidemics are entirely the fault of the great flu pandemic of 1912.
An even closer analogy to what you said is:
Human epidemics are entirely the fault of widespread transportation networks. Ergo we ought to abolish such networks.
Re:Three months of content moderation for Facebook in Berlin
by naasking on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:19PM
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Err, no. I never said crazies never found each other before, I said the pandemic of crazies finding each other and organizing now are the fault of FB (and other social media of course).
Re:Three months of content moderation for Facebook in Berlin
by cgmg on Monday January 29, 2018 @05:43PM
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Then it is not "entirely" Facebook's fault, as you suggested. Such hyperbole obscures rather than illuminates truth.
Do you have any empirical evidence to back this "pandemic" claim of yours? Or is that just a feeling you have?
Do you see the problem with this argument? FB was rapidly accelerated the organization of these types of extreme positions. My original comment follows from my last comment. What do you think the crazies do when they've gotten all outraged at some false proposition or other?