Re:How Trolls Overran the Public Square
by spyckie2 on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @12:16AM
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More critique to add on to the article (attaching to the thread since I like to similar topics grouped together for discourse reasons):
One of the author's key points is that the economics of networks is the reason for poor discourse. Money & influence are identified as the drivers of bad behavior.
But this has only inspired the author to write the very hand-wavy outrage media piece that is in the exact same nature as the media that they are condemning. No real solutions, no real framing of the problem in a way that can be solved. In short, the article is created by the exact system the article complains about.
If you think that the economic incentives of discourse is broken, there's real "journalistic" work to do. Propose an economic model of "value creation". Show, through modeling, how easy it is for bad behavior to dominate with the given market conditions. Isolate and propose policies that would change behavior. Model out what should happen if those changes were to take place. And then call for a real world test to see if that really happens.
One of the author's key points is that the economics of networks is the reason for poor discourse. Money & influence are identified as the drivers of bad behavior.
But this has only inspired the author to write the very hand-wavy outrage media piece that is in the exact same nature as the media that they are condemning. No real solutions, no real framing of the problem in a way that can be solved. In short, the article is created by the exact system the article complains about.
If you think that the economic incentives of discourse is broken, there's real "journalistic" work to do. Propose an economic model of "value creation". Show, through modeling, how easy it is for bad behavior to dominate with the given market conditions. Isolate and propose policies that would change behavior. Model out what should happen if those changes were to take place. And then call for a real world test to see if that really happens.