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Re:Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'natio... by trianglem on Monday November 23, 2020 @01:44PM (#25190072)
All it does is further tribalise people. I would be okay with a social media system that did not serve people only the content they would like to see. Also there has to be some sort of gatekeeper to weed out false information. I don’t know how the latter can be implemented in a fair manner besides some sort of arbitration AI that we don’t currently have.
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Re:Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'natio... by nickpp on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:16PM (#25190501)
Who should decide what content people should see? Who decides who are the gatekeepers? We are not living in a SciFi world.
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Re:Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'natio... by trianglem on Monday November 23, 2020 @05:22PM (#25192650)
As Fricken mentioned the media has traditionally played this role especially before they got rid of the fairness doctrine.
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Re:Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'natio... by Fricken on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:36PM (#25190739)
Traditionally the media decided what content people should see. It kept most people on the same page.
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