Am I the only one truly scared about the complete removal of any responsibility in overseeing the flaming garbage heap that social media has become? All I see is that Zuckerberg doesn't want to be accused of mishandling oversight, it's become too unwieldy in this modern world of flagrant lying, and he's just saying "If Musk gets rewarded…
Am I the only one truly scared about the complete removal of any responsibility in overseeing the flaming garbage heap that social media has become? All I see is that Zuckerberg doesn't want to be accused of mishandling oversight, it's become too unwieldy in this modern world of flagrant lying, and he's just saying "If Musk gets rewarded for his shit show on X, why can't I do the same?" This is not a positive step, in my opinion; it should be a major red flag in the free world that we have completely given up on attempts to uphold honesty and integrity.
When the 'overseeing' was done by a bunch of barely-out-of-college ultra progessives who censored things like The Barrington Declaration, the Hunter Biden laptop, etc. then, no, I am not scared about their complete removal from the system.
You're not the only one. Zuckerberg is simply shirking his responsibility as a publisher. He ought to watch the movie The Post. One of the tragedies of our time is that the most important media -- social media -- is in the hands of tech nerds.
Who's going to read them? You can get these unbridled rage-fests (opinions, all) on a SM thread, and none of those commenters are interested in drilling down to the community notes or any platform that pulls people back to reality.
ideally this would work, but if you look at SM you will realize how much misinformation is out there, and how harmful it's becoming. You likely already know that some significant portion of youth get their "news" from TikTok. None of this is vetted. Some of it is real. Some of it is AI generated. So now we have platforms with absolutely no oversight. It's not really equivalent to Wikipedia, which is already suffering from revisionist histories manicured by those with both an agenda and time on their hands.
I don't think of this as "government controlling censorship" -- I thought it would become universally important to the fabric of society that some modicum of fact-checking be exercised across all information-trading platforms.
Today´s youth also have parents and go to school, so hopefully they are not just at the mercy of TikTok for their education. (They seem more interested in making insipid videos on Tik Tok than anything else.) What is more frightening is the government censuring social media and compelling the legacy media to also carry their water.
Am I the only one truly scared about the complete removal of any responsibility in overseeing the flaming garbage heap that social media has become? All I see is that Zuckerberg doesn't want to be accused of mishandling oversight, it's become too unwieldy in this modern world of flagrant lying, and he's just saying "If Musk gets rewarded for his shit show on X, why can't I do the same?" This is not a positive step, in my opinion; it should be a major red flag in the free world that we have completely given up on attempts to uphold honesty and integrity.
When the 'overseeing' was done by a bunch of barely-out-of-college ultra progessives who censored things like The Barrington Declaration, the Hunter Biden laptop, etc. then, no, I am not scared about their complete removal from the system.
You're not the only one. Zuckerberg is simply shirking his responsibility as a publisher. He ought to watch the movie The Post. One of the tragedies of our time is that the most important media -- social media -- is in the hands of tech nerds.
Doesn’t community notes set things straight?
Who's going to read them? You can get these unbridled rage-fests (opinions, all) on a SM thread, and none of those commenters are interested in drilling down to the community notes or any platform that pulls people back to reality.
It is far deeper level of scared if the government controls social media censorship.
Here’s a novel idea -stay off social media. Works like a charm for me.
ideally this would work, but if you look at SM you will realize how much misinformation is out there, and how harmful it's becoming. You likely already know that some significant portion of youth get their "news" from TikTok. None of this is vetted. Some of it is real. Some of it is AI generated. So now we have platforms with absolutely no oversight. It's not really equivalent to Wikipedia, which is already suffering from revisionist histories manicured by those with both an agenda and time on their hands.
I don't think of this as "government controlling censorship" -- I thought it would become universally important to the fabric of society that some modicum of fact-checking be exercised across all information-trading platforms.
What is truly harmful is today's youth's inability to use critical thinking skills.
Today´s youth also have parents and go to school, so hopefully they are not just at the mercy of TikTok for their education. (They seem more interested in making insipid videos on Tik Tok than anything else.) What is more frightening is the government censuring social media and compelling the legacy media to also carry their water.
The expectation is that we the people uphold it. Not government.