A thread for updates on the various ways the internet is destroying everything and the undying hellsites of social media. Let's all laugh at the abyss.
"Single purpose hate channel" would be a smashing name for a band.
California just passed a law that requires social media companies to publicly provide quarterly enforcement reports on the outcomes of their moderation process or face fines. It's not prescribing any specific definition of hate speech or the use of any specific moderation processes (the companies are left to decide that for themselves, they just have to make their decisions public information), and the fines are for failure to submit the report, not failure to moderate.
It's not going to directly fix any of the problems detailed in this thread, but it's not really meant to. It seems more like it's meant to make companies stop hiding information about how most of their moderation policies are not working and to identify those policies (if any) that actually do work, and also to get companies to stop selectively enforcing their policies.
There are definitely times like this where I am proud to live in CA...
It's not going to directly fix any of the problems detailed in this thread, but it's not really meant to. It seems more like it's meant to make companies stop hiding information about how most of their moderation policies are not working and to identify those policies (if any) that actually do work, and also to get companies to stop selectively enforcing their policies.
Exactly. It's a transparency law. It makes it so social media sites can't claim publicly to be taking out the trash, while letting the trash flow behind closed doors. In my estimation, it's made to facilitate public pressure.
And I’ve spent all weekend trying to articulate that particular kind of mortified liberal millennial exasperation I tend to feel every time I come across yet another fascist nerd like this. And there's a lot of them. In fact, I’ve even wondered if there’s just something fascist about like science fiction, fantasy, or anime. I don’t think there is, but I don’t think it’s unrelated either.
It's not inherent to the genres, but there are many common sci-fi & fantasy tropes and concepts that are either appealing to fascists or can be distorted into seeming like they are advocating for fascism. Also, even when the fascists are clearly the bad guys, if they look cooler or have better powers than the good guys, you'll probably get more people pretending to be them over the good guys. And when you have fans who base big parts of their identity and personality on "the thing they like", it can end with them looking for people who are most like the bad guys from "the thing they like" but in the real world.
There are non-fascists in Warhammer 40k?
There's a relevant video about the 40k problem I found to be quite insightful about the whole thing. I've always really enjoyed the Warhammer setting but hated most the fans, so it was a bit of a surprising and refreshing take to see.
There are non-fascists in Warhammer 40k?
Tyranids?
The Tau aren't fascist I don't believe...
I will say that the 40K world revolves around space expansion which lends itself to empires and empire building, expansion and maintenance. Democracies deal with internal issues. I don't know how a democracy would deal with expansion. Does it then become an empire? The American Empire is run through (spheres of influence) money, bases in other countries, and intel ops, right?
Populism Updates, a great Twitter account for covering, well, populism, has been following Meloni closely all summer and recently pointed out that she regularly shares anime fan art of herself, usually using the hashtag #MeloniChan. It’s a classic far-right populism tactic to build a cyber army of obsessive otakus who will harass journalists and activists for free
This was even a plot point in The Boys. The character Stormfront had her own little meme army.
"Remember, remember, the 5th of November, the gunpowder treason and plot."
A coroner in the UK has listed Instagram's algorithm as a contributing cause in a teenager's death.
The coroner concluded the 2019 death couldn't be ruled a suicide, but instead was "an act of self-harm whilst suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content." The teen viewed thousands of posts on Instagram and Pintrest that promoted self-harm in the months leading up to her death, some of which the coroner found "almost impossible to watch."
To it's credit, Pintrest apologized and said they didn't have access to the tools they now have to moderate content, and has since greatly improved its moderation of content that promotes self-harm. Instagram's parent company Meta took a different approach and insisted in court that it considers the content she viewed as safe by their standards, and offered the ridiculous argument that moderating content that promoted self-harm would harm free speech and somehow prevent people from seeking help for issues relating to self-harm.
There's an argument that utilities such as electricity and water should be nationalized as they are critical to a functioning society and shouldn't be subject to the whims of shareholders. Is it time to think of SNS as a utility? The way many of these companies are run gives little regard to the well-being of their product (er users) and often disregards the laws of the countries they operate in.
And, f' Meta.
When you lose the people who would sell their own children if they could make enough profit on the deal you should probably rethink things.
He doesn’t have much choice at this point. It’s either he buys twitter now of “choice”, or he is forced to buy Twitter in a few weeks when he losses the court case.
Except Twitter's response to him saying he'll complete the original deal was to tell the court they don't trust him anymore and want the court to oversee the completion of the deal. That's "not taking yes for an answer" that's saying "put your money where your mouth is"
And stories of his original financiers backing out this week would make Twitter wary
It's almost as if it's a sh*t idea with zero appeal to anyone?
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