Recent comments in /f/Futurology

Outrageous-Onion1991 t1_j9mo4if wrote

A lot of content creators have had to go back and delete massive amounts of their old videos because new rules they dumped on without warning. The next round will probably ban any content that correlates with firearms or even airsoft content. It sounds trivial now, but censorship doesn't happen in one fell swoop, it's chipped away like it is now. So they will inevitably need a new platform that is global and secure

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skillywilly56 t1_j9mmymr wrote

Dear lord have you never heard of a metaphor, one cannot just wash one’s hands of something like Pontius Pilot and make money off of it just because they didn’t make the content or have control of what users watch, because they ARE controlling it.

Especially when they use an “algorithm” to deliberately feed the content to users constantly such as the right wing bullshitery and misinformation because the most controversial stuff gets the most views and will give them the most ad revenue. They aren’t giving you the content you want, they are feeding you content that sells ads.

Like a book store that says “we have millions of books to choose from” and then the only books they have on display are books about Nazis, all the recommended reading is about how to become a Nazi, and then once you have gone and bought a book about something else entirely and come back a week later, “you wanna read something about Nazis” “ we really think you’d like stuff about Nazis” Because every time you read or buy something about Nazis they get more money than when you buy any other book.

They don’t have an algorithm, it’s a hate generator and the key factor is that it is deliberate. It deliberately aims content to generate ad revenue, it’s not an “accident” and that’s the sticking point.

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spacewolfcubbs t1_j9mmops wrote

Keep in mind that the future doesn’t rule out new messengers taking a large piece of the pie. People are much more aware of their privacy and their data’s worth, so decentralization is something that will definitely go viral in the future. Qamon is one example of how the technology can look once implemented, which is secure messaging with no traces leading back to you, meaning that you no longer have to censor your true thoughts or worry about your information being sold to the highest bidder so that advertisers can shill their products in your face

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MINIMAN10001 t1_j9mlokb wrote

I believe the same standards which DMCA falls under should be the same standards held here. Follow safe harbor protections about taking action on things that you learn about but are not required to seek out malfeasance actively to maintain your personal protection over other people's use of unauthorized copyright content on your platform.

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odinlubumeta t1_j9mii9b wrote

First it’s entertainment. How people can just publicly put entertainment over human life’s to me is so odd.

Second why can’t they adapt? We don’t know what the rules would be but we have all these algorithms and machine learning and soon to be AI, but these billion (soon to be trillion) dollar companies can find a way to adapt?

And yes it’s a stupid argument if your point is that corporations that can’t adapt shouldn’t come to an end. Are they also too big too fail? Seriously I want you to make an argument that a company shouldn’t have to adapt to the laws and have them written around the biggest companies.

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kalakau t1_j9mfcqd wrote

as a practicing physicist you and others should be aware that sabine is intentionally contrarian in order to generate revenue. she's a populist capitalist, not a practicing physicist, and her content should be understood as entertainment, not necessarily as educational content, and certainly not as academic consensus. she often misrepresents (and in certain cases is entirely wrong about) research in fields she has no expertise in. there are threads at length in r/physics discussing this

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