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Re:The new silent majority: People who don't tweet by bena on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @09:06AM (#30614498)
But it's still people at the end of it. The "algorithm" didn't come up with the topic, didn't write the article, didn't perform the actions. People did. People bought the ads. People promoted the content. And ultimately, people also wrote the "algorithm".
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Re:The new silent majority: People who don't tweet by lazide on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:05PM (#30616962)
Some hyperbole, but considering the real world consequences right now maybe not as much as we’d like to believe - People are also the ones who use chemical weapons to gas their opponents in particularly nasty wars.

It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t all agree to not do that, or even try to enforce that people don’t do that.

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