While those new sites look well thought out and interesting, what really matters.....
In 2020 Will Facebook be 95% compliant as a tool for Vladimir Putin to take over America? Or will it be 75%? it's nice to imagine a better future. But in 2020, Facebook is where people live. It's the biggest state in the union. Ignore it at your peril. Getting Facebook to make some small changes in the right direction can make a huge impact. There are some subtle regulatory reasons including anti-trust that enforce the terrible citizenship on Facebook even if it's execs would actually like to do a better job. Under digital millennium copyright act, which regulates social media, it's actually illegal to exercise editorial judgment and implement a preference for what you think is true. If someone did have a filter for true versus fake information, it would immediately block Fox News, and most of the other right wing news outlets, including the statements of conservative politicians. It is not socially acceptable to block all conservative bleating. Particularly when they know it's not true and they're relying on the wisdom of the herd to make their lies ascendant. What would the Senate do to Facebook if they started banning posts for being lies? It wouldn't even take an act of the legislature. They would lose their copyright protection. And their business. Immediately. (arl Time to make sure Spaceship Earth's life support systems are fully redundant, like a jetliner. On Sat, Oct 3, 2020, 1:16 PM Paul via cpsr-activists list < [email protected]> wrote: > 👍 > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > [email protected] > To be removed from the list, send any message to: > [email protected] > > For all list information and functions, see: > http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/cpsr-activists >
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