Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co...
by intended on Friday April 24, 2020 @04:05AM
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How are you going to best network effects and the race to the bottom?
It happened with news (the cable news cycle) and it’s happening with social media.
The bare, sad truth is that any private or public societal scale information sharing function eventually gets captured - driven to relentlessly pound away at subconscious fight or flight routines so that they keep their cut of the audience.
Eventually the need to keep the network alive (advertising) overcomes its ostensible mission of carrying valuable signal.
As long as the two are not divorced - the advantage will lie in exploiting the vulnerability of our neurological systems over investing in carrying more in depth, boring but accurate news articles.
At some level we must recognize that we need to get the best of a central source of truth while also ensuring that this source of truth is not captured by the governing bodies of a country.
It happened with news (the cable news cycle) and it’s happening with social media.
The bare, sad truth is that any private or public societal scale information sharing function eventually gets captured - driven to relentlessly pound away at subconscious fight or flight routines so that they keep their cut of the audience.
Eventually the need to keep the network alive (advertising) overcomes its ostensible mission of carrying valuable signal.
As long as the two are not divorced - the advantage will lie in exploiting the vulnerability of our neurological systems over investing in carrying more in depth, boring but accurate news articles.
At some level we must recognize that we need to get the best of a central source of truth while also ensuring that this source of truth is not captured by the governing bodies of a country.