Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook

Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by blackhaz on Friday November 22, 2019 @08:02AM (#21605147)

As much as I admire Sacha Baron Cohen's efforts to uncover hypocrisy of our society, I agree with your comment and disagree with him - that social platforms have to filter content; just on the basis that this filtering, even if done with good intentions initially, may later be seized by individuals with their own agendas, which may not at all be virtuous.

If we mute people talking about races and skin color, prohibit to single out minorities, do we actually relieve the pressure in the society, or help build it up to a radical level and fuel even more hatred that way?

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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by hesk on Friday November 22, 2019 @08:47AM (#21605468)

But Facebook already filters content in various ways. They boost content according to its engagement which downgrades/hides the other content from your feed. They sell targeted ads to the highest bidder which implies that you do no see the ads of the other bidders.

If Facebook would just stop manipulating and selling your attention it would have a better defense against calls to filter the content on it.

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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by xfitm3 on Friday November 22, 2019 @08:06AM (#21605179)

I don't trust people with the kind of power filtering provides. I'd rather error on being open and free.

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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by mcphage on Friday November 22, 2019 @09:54AM (#21606036)

> do we actually relieve the pressure in the society, or help build it up to a radical level and fuel even more hatred that way?

Bad ideas spread through exposure.

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