Ok, but are we losers who cannot compete culturally? Where's the faith and confidence? We can't compete with AI slop?
Can broccoli compete with heroin? Why don't we offer people both and see what they like better? Let them compete! Give people choice!
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines
by CWuestefeld on Saturday January 10, 2026 @12:39PM
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Who gets to decide where to draw the line?
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines
by s1mplicissimus on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:42AM
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Well when I grew up in the early days of the internet, the plan was to have it decided by a democratically elected government that acts in good faith.
Since that didn't seem to work I'm kinda out of ideas as well
Setting aside the bad analogy, real people are much more likely to eat broccoli than to do heroin.
Once they've had a taste of both?
I am confident that the number of broccoli eaters exceeds the number of heroin users.
I would posit that is because many more people have had a taste of broccoli than of heroin.
You would posit based on what? Defunct rats-pressing-pleasure-button studies?
Many people have had "heroin" in the form of morphine in the hospital. They don’t turn into morphine-seekers.
Addiction and pleasure seeking is more complex than having a taste and then being hooked forever. Of course many people can't get out of this Skinner Box type of mindset.
As an example, watch a really good documentary on something, I would consider it best
But it might have less views than some AI slop video perhaps even generated in a minute
Another aspect relevant to the propaganda discussion is that I think modern algorithms have decided that ragebait is the best form of engagement and this is why propaganda might spread fast and how social media might actually actively help the foreign nation
I would argue that this is one of the reasons social media actively harms but its that profit over all for social media seems genuinely harmful. We need more focus on bluesky and mastodon and other alternatives as well to establish a network effect there but also that I would argue that prosecuting social media / large tech companies should have such a case where something can be prosecuted criminally for a class law suit case so that these social medias can stay better in shape than being deranged
But the issue to me feels like I am already protesting Italian even fining because in this case to me it feels like abusing the vagueness of the law and other factors so I am sure that if we give govts more power they might have the ability to abuse it as well for some lobbying powers (in this case it seems to be football)
Everything boils down to what the genuine incentives of the govts are I guess. I mean some are trying to do somethings but I guess all of this is just really tricky and the answer is in a series of changes and not a single one. There is nuance to this like every other discussion