How Trolls Overran the Public Square

Re:How Trolls Overran the Public Square by shsyejehxtd on Monday December 09, 2019 @11:33PM (#21749608)

Changing incentives to manipulate social discourse is pretty much the definition of a ministry of truth. If the idea is that commercialism is bad at setting goalposts then surely a simpler solution would be a government run ad-free social media company moderated by constitutional restrictions on speech and nothing else.

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Re:How Trolls Overran the Public Square by creato on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @01:26AM (#21750177)

Do you consider the presence or absence of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to be "ministry of truth"?

Would you consider regulations about how precisely targeted ads may be to be "ministry of truth"?

There are a lot of ways in which the behavior of this industry could be shaped (and already has been shaped) that are not obviously manipulating social discourse in the way that "ministry of truth" implies.

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Re:How Trolls Overran the Public Square by shsyejehxtd on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @02:42AM (#21750484)

I suppose if you abstract a problem enough then any action is comparable to another, I can't say I see the usefulness it provides for answering rhetorical questions though.

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