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Re:White House launches tool to report censorship on social ... by sandworm101 on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:03AM (#19929136)
>> We are going to have the government deal with shitty Mods?

Breitbart.

>> Back when I was a kid, if the Mods sucked, you'd stop going to that website.

If websites existed when you were a kid, you are not the target market for this tool.

>>Serious question, why do unhappy customers keep buying what bad companies sell?

That's how addiction works.

>>I stopped using Facebook and many subreddits. I have this self control.

Then they have won. Every time a reasonable person disconnects, the ratio of unreasonable people on a platform increases. Unreasonableness, extremism, creates greater engagement, generating more add revenue.

>> Is there anyone here that cannot stop visiting bad websites?

We are all here aren't we?

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Re:White House launches tool to report censorship on social ... by athroway on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:21AM (#19929297)
The platform shouldn't exist as a monopoly for discussion in the first place. If all people, when facing a website that sucked, just stopped using the damn website like GP and me, the platform wouldn't have this much power.

Seriously, what's so hard with not using social media? Aren't there plenty of offline stuff to do and people to talk to in meatspace? Is its prevalence a uniquely American thing?

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Re:White House launches tool to report censorship on social ... by derp_dee_derp on Thursday May 16, 2019 @11:35AM (#19929952)
Are you kidding? Social media companies literally have people on their payroll whose entire job is to increase engagement. They turn the sites into addictive Skinner boxes because the are incentivised to do so.

Of course it's hard to quit. It's designed to be hard to quit.

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Re:White House launches tool to report censorship on social ... by cannonedhamster on Thursday May 16, 2019 @12:32PM (#19930460)
I would hardly classify Hacker News as a bad website. My inflammatory comments are routinely downvoted as they should be. My good posts tend to be well received. This is quite frankly one of the least terrible places on the internet for discussion with a relatively wide viewpoint for the internet. We've got libertarians, liberals, conservatives and even a few greens and generally we agree to keep it mostly civil because that's why we're all here. There's no crappy memes, no quizzes. We're explicitly here for the comments.
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