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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by mempko on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:47PM (#21607963)
Who is deciding which content is promoted now on social media? An unaccountable algorithm. Isn't this just the flip side of the censorship coin? Except now the truth is being censored and lies are being promoted because it's financially better for the publisher.

Wouldn't the most appropriate legal response to this be not allow social media companies to have any sort of recommendation algorithm and force them to have feeds that are linear in time of people who you follow?

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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by bassman9000 on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:53PM (#21608047)
The appropriate response would be to take them to justice if law was broken, and for you not to use the platforms if you don't want to, as a free citizen.

The problem with the mixed approach is that these platforms get the official recognition they don't deserve, and the private censors we don't need or want.

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