Force Internet giants to offer straight, non-algorithmic feeds
Headline:
“YouTube & Facebook Radicalized the Christchurch Shooter, New Zealand Report Concludes”
How seriously eff’d up is this?
That terrorist killed 51 people before being apprehended.
And how does YouTube and Facebook radicalize people?
Easy: by constantly feeding you the same crap their shitty algorithms think you want to see.
This nasty, default, and unchangeable practice has to stop!
While for YouTube a suggestion algorithm might be needed, it mustn’t be one that recommends violence or worse.
Is this hard to do? Yes. However, Google, YouTube’s parent, has enough experience with search to make it happen.
As for Facebook, the only reason it has an algorithmic timeline is blatantly for money, even more so than YouTube/Google.
I believe the very first remedy to be asked by the attorneys-general of the 48 states suing Google, and the EU, is for tech giants to immediately stop forcing algorithmic timelines and suggestions on their users.
They should make it unlawful to ever revert t algorithms unless asked for in very definite, multi-assent dialog pages, and make reverting to a normal, no-algorithm timeline the default within 24 hours.
Make them work for it, I say.
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