• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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    Screenshots of text are just stupid: we should be linking or embedding content from sources or their archived snapshots.

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    We should just go back to making it require an intermediate level of technical ability to get on the internet. It does not take much of a barrier for most idiots to give up on computer shit. Then set up a secondary kiddie internet for just to access essential services and stream stuff without the social aspects.

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    In one generation? In zero generations. The same people who 20 years ago were telling their kids “everyone online is a pedophile” are the exact same ones who insist on “leave poor Trump alone, democrats eat babies in pizza basements”.

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      “leave poor Trump alone, democrats eat babies in pizza basements”.

      I hate that I know what all of those words mean when they are put together like that. Ugh.

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    The time of “don’t trust everything on the internet” was also time of “news on TV can’t lie”, so not much of a change. But how humanity is handling technology is definitely something to fix or else more suffering will come

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      Who else will use technology? Trees? Swordfish? A ladybug?

      Tech doesn’t exist in a vacuum. If there are human limitations or biases that make a specific technology dangerous, we should most definitely rethink how we use it and how accessible and regulated it should be.

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        Idiot-proofing only uncovers harder idiots. People are ultimately responsible for their (lack of) judgement.

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        Yeah. Overshoot then overcorrect, then overshoot again. Only we’ve got our priorities skewed and now we’re tuning using ‘engagement metrics’. Numbers representing human happiness and contentment just aren’t important in the face of capital.

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    Is that really any different than believing everything you hear on TV or believing everything you read in the newspaper? A lot of what we’re taught in school shouldn’t be believed either honestly.

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      Yes it is different. TV had broadcasting standards and twitter has absolutely nothing.

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        You really believe that traditional media is truthful with people? Have you never heard the term “manufacturing consent”? Have you never heard of Fox News lol?

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          I didnt say they were truthful I said they had broadcasting standards.

          Also fox news was fined over a billion for lying and lost a ton of viewers to alt media because they couldn’t legally be as extreme as alt media platforms. Also manufacturing consent is a meme response, it would apply to any broadcasting on any platform.

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            Fox was never fined, they where sued by “Dominion Voting Systems Corporation” for defamation and settled out of court for close to 800m. No government body penalized Fox for lying.

            it would apply to any broadcasting on any platform.

            How is that not the case? Instead of Rupert Murdoch lying to you now it’s Elon Musk, new media is just an evolution of the same bullshit.

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              Fox was never fined, they where sued by “Dominion Voting Systems Corporation” for defamation and settled out of court for close to 800m. No government body penalized Fox for lying.

              You’re completely right and after looking into it further I was wrong. I thought that because the US had broadcast licenses the FCC enforced a broadcasting standard but after further research and because of the weird obsession with free speech. In America you’re right there is no difference between new and alt media. I still think that in other countries where broadcasters are held to a standard there is a big difference between the two.

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    It’s shifting the thinking process to someone people assume are knowledgeable. We’ve done it since the dawn of time from depending on tribe leaders, religious leaders, kings, government, scientists, influencers now currently to supposed “AI”.

    It really didn’t matter if they were right, wrong or making things up along the way. It’s how stuff like religion from thousand years ago still persist.

    It’s really not out of character.