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Fixing Broken Politics - Social Media - Extra Politics
🕑 Added 2020-10-11 19:07:53 +0000 UTCSocial media is capable of a lot of good but also a lot of hmmmmmm.... trash. How can we stop it from being a chamber of a 1000 bots screaming at 1000 other bots?
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Alex McLaren
Love how the Articles of confederation theme is the music for this, I love that song.
Smiling Walrus
There doesn't need to be an apolyptical war against the machines like in the Matrix or Terminator. π€·πΌββοΈ They just need to wait after we tore ourselves apart while they just excactly did as they were told. π
Edmund Morris
The idea of finding a threshold at which to regulate media accounts might actually be a thing that could gain traction with state level legislators. There would probably also need to be a carve out for public figures, as well - the mayor of small town, anywhere, pop. 15,000 should still be fact-checked, but isn't likely to have enough followers to shape regional discourse - but it's certainly worth shopping around.
Justin Wells
There is also another very scary problem of those that are considered to be "Outside the Norm" on certain issues. Iraq having weapons of mass destruction was seen as "True" by the majority of major news networks but was completely false, and many were castigated and chastised for not being for the war. Anyone who is not already in the center has to fear being removed entirely by this system, one which already has a LOT of corruption already in it. That said creating a "tax" on those with multiple accounts could potentially work, and I would like to see a more detailed plan, that would help slow the influence of bot farms, but it would have to be an exponential leap in cost after just a few to make it even possible. Those with money consider it an investment for things that make them more money, a simple "cost of doing business" and we can't forget that.
Sientir
Love the Trogdor. :D
Adam Fairris
There is also the obvious answer. Publicly, loudly and embarrassingly investigate Facebook the company and Mr Zuckerberg the individual for their role in genocides in Myanmar and Ethiopia. Iβd say a fine of... $1mil to each direct family member of a victim as a starting number would work. I would bet my hat, that once Marky Z and the gang realise there are consequences for their profit-first, safety-third policies, and these consequences are more expensive than fixing things, theyβll fix things.
