[HN Gopher] Fixing Social Media with Data Trusts
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Fixing Social Media with Data Trusts
Author : machinerychorus
Score : 19 points
Date : 2022-06-01 12:13 UTC (1 days ago)
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| arrosenberg wrote:
| Just turn it off. Are we really losing anything (besides
| shareholder value) if FB, Twitter, Tiktok, LinkedIn and Instagram
| all disappear?
|
| What positive have any of those platforms delivered that
| outweighs the tremendous burden they have externalized on
| society?
| 0des wrote:
| As you can tell, words like this only anger those still under
| the spell. Im gonna sprinkle a little grisgris on the keyboard
| in hopes that it helps you out, but no promises.
| shapefrog wrote:
| > words like this only anger those still under the spell.
|
| And those that are under said spell are certain that _the
| other side_ has a strangle hold over social media and
| everyone else (obviously not them) is under a spell that
| keeps them hooked.
| hunglee2 wrote:
| Unclear how groups will solve any problems here, other than
| actually preventing individual freedom of speech, so arguably
| even more draconian that the authoritarian examples cited in the
| article. At least it is making the attempt to square the circle
| of free speech vs social cohesion, though I suspect in the end,
| one of the two is going to have give
| A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote:
| Agreed. It is oddly convoluted, does not change the privacy
| equation, does not really change freedom of speech equation.. I
| am genuinely not sure who would benefit from this particular
| setup.
|
| When I first read it, my instinct was that somehow it will be
| fixed with a 3rd party data broker and I pre-emptively groaned.
| Calvin02 wrote:
| While I like Jared and the ideas that he puts forward, I can't
| help but feel that in reality they would fail abysmally.
|
| Half of this country (US) denies that Sandy Hook happened, they
| deny that the election was fair, they think that every mass
| shooting is staged in an attempt by the government to seize their
| guns. Why would these people want to join a social group and only
| post through that group? Also, why would it limit misinformation?
| Aren't there already communities of these like minded people who
| are even more extreme?
| 0des wrote:
| That's quite the monolith you've assembled there. Who are these
| people so I can avoid them the next time I'm venturing into
| Narnia?
| erellsworth wrote:
| Agreed. Also, even if we assume that the groups idea (which I
| don't think is very well defined) would solve everything, how
| would you get all social media platforms to follow that
| template? I can't see any legislation requiring such an
| approach surviving legal challenges, or being implemented
| globally.
| Group_B wrote:
| I wouldn't go as far as to say half the country is as crazy as
| Alex Jones. That's a bit of a stretch.
| null0pointer wrote:
| > Half of this country (US) denies that Sandy Hook happened,
| they deny that the election was fair, they think that every
| mass shooting is staged in an attempt by the government to
| seize their guns.
|
| Half? This is such a gross overestimation. The people that hold
| those views are a tiny fringe minority. It's rhetoric like
| this, where you accuse the half of the country that didn't vote
| for your team of holding extreme views, that drives division in
| the United States.
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