Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship

Re:Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censo... by tlholaday on Sunday July 18, 2021 @05:06PM (#27876670)

It seems unfair to deprecate algorithms which "favor 'provocative' ideas that drive clicks" as a `distortion` of the marketplace of ideas.

It seems more that by driving clicks, the algorithms are `facilitating` the marketplace. People are signaling the ideas they prefer, idea suppliers are producing more of such ideas, and the people get these ideas at ever-lower prices.

How is that in any way a distortion of an ideal marketplace?

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Re:Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censo... by sudosysgen on Sunday July 18, 2021 @05:10PM (#27876715)

There is no ideal marketplace of ideas.

It takes years to fully develop an understanding of any particular ideology. How are you supposed to judge which one is better at interpreting the world on such a short term system?

There is simply too much friction in the ideological marketplace for it to approximate even loosely an ideal market.

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Re:Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censo... by AnimalMuppet on Sunday July 18, 2021 @05:23PM (#27876805)

It's an ideal "twitch" marketplace, not an ideal "deep thought" marketplace. "The marketplace of ideas" wasn't usually considered to be about gossip, rumor, or entertainment. Those are... something, but not "the marketplace of ideas".

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Re:Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censo... by naasking on Monday July 19, 2021 @04:45PM (#27887077)

Provocative ideas are not the same as good ideas. These algorithms artificially promote provocative ideas because that drives revenue. That's a market distortion, just like subsidies distort economic markets.

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