So, is it good, bad or indifferent?
And should Elon Musk be hung, drawn, quartered or all of the above?
it can be any one of the three, and all points between, depending on who's using it and for what.
yes.
Personally don’t think we will know the answers until about 100 years from now. We are deep “in the swarm” and cannot see out of it clearly.
Are you glad you grew up without smart phones?I think kind of the opposite tbh. It all seems a bit inevitable, new tech is generally pushed that way But at this point we have people who remember a time before the internet, it's early days, pre-social media, other social media platforms etc. we have a range of reference points to judge by. If Twitter/Facebook/Insta/YouTube linger on long enough, or get replaced by competitive clones then we'll soon have generations born and raised within a social media environment.
Fash organising shows that pretty well too I think. People can see the imbalances on Twitter, recognise the emergence of (very) false narratives and see where they come from. That stuff only becomes more organic/background noise when it gets a chance to fester and spread.
yesAre you glad you grew up without smart phones?
YesAre you glad you grew up without smart phones?
I have reported the most hideous racist posts that urge violence and use vile language- never even had a reply from Twitter.Will AI be able to automatically regulate posts on social media? I know AI and bias is a can of worms in itself but it might take out some of the worst posts.
As for Musk, he wants to set the world on fire and watch it burn.
Will AI be able to automatically regulate posts on social media? I know AI and bias is a can of worms in itself but it might take out some of the worst posts.
As for Musk, he wants to set the world on fire and watch it burn.
That's because he sacked everybody.I have reported the most hideous racist posts that urge violence and use vile language- never even had a reply from Twitter.
Yeah, I presumed it was something like that- but still hideous to see people laughing about boats sinking in the channel and people dying. I have learnt not to click on any video as not into surprise porn for breakfast.That's because he sacked everybody.
It's not entirely unmoderated, he's kept the power to ban people who call him a twatty spacebaby, but there just aren't the people there any more to do anything but basic level housekeeping. See the proliferation of pornbots, attractive young women who are remarkably interested in my comments about Alastair Campbell, and knock off Chinese goods vendors.
I see the biggest problem is Musk's ownership of twitter, I refuse to call it 'X', the government can get the other SM platforms to take more responsibility for the content published on their sites, Musk is not interested in doing that.
Tommy Robinson is clearly the biggest gobshite out there, that's fueling these far-right mobs, Musk not only allowed him back on twitter, where his followers have been sky rocketing over recent days, currently at around 900k, but Musk is also liking, sharing and commenting his posts, and making standalone posts in support of Robinson, extending Robinson vile content to Musk's massive 192.9 million followers.
He is an incredibly dangerous man, because of his ownership of twitter and the power he has over it, and he not going to change, so Twitter needs to change, and the only way that is going to happen is by change of ownership.
As I said on the other thread, personally I would be happy to see twitter banned in the UK, until this whole situation is resolved.
It's not about banning SM in general, it's just this one man and one platform that is a very special case.
this is a press report about the government pissing straight into an oncoming hurricane...I appreciate having a meeting with someone from New Labour is a pretty severe punishment, but bad though it is its not going to be enoughIn the news, the Guardian reports today that No 10 said work was taking place to impress upon social media companies that they already had a duty to remove criminal content.
“The government is working with social media platforms to ensure that they are removing content quickly [and] that their processes are in place, but there is more that they can and should be doing,” the spokesperson said.
“They have a responsibility to ensure the safety of their users and online spaces, to ensure that criminal activity is not being hosted on their platforms. They shouldn’t be waiting for the Online Safety Act for that. They already have responsibilities in place under the law … They have responsibilities that we will hold them to account for.”
The technology secretary, Peter Kyle, is expected to meet social media bosses in the coming days, the spokesperson said.
No 10 criticises Elon Musk for ‘civil war is inevitable’ post on England riots
PM’s spokesperson says ‘no justification’ for X owner’s comment under video of far-right disorderwww.theguardian.com
I think the thread a good idea but the op really poor. The questions shouldn't be about is sm good bad or indifferent, or Elon musk's death, but about a) who is using various sm platforms, b) why and how they promote mis- and disinformation, c) what if anything can be done about it, and d) what as people 'on the left' we should be using sm for in our responses to events and to promote mobilisation. Other questions will no doubt crop up too
It’s very bad at context. AI is okay for removing pornography and CSAM but hopeless at distinguishing between truth and lies, or between fair comment and coded hate speech. Offshored human moderators reviewing dozens of pieces of content every minute aren’t much good at that, either.
Very well said.The reigning economic system is founded on isolation; at the same time it is a circular process designed to produce isolation. Isolation underpins technology, and technology isolates in its turn; all goods proposed by the spectacular system, from cars to televisions, also serve as weapons for that system as it strives to reinforce the isolation of "the lonely crowd."
Amazing to me that anyone would take anything other than a Luddite approach to this stuff, it's not 2009 anymore.
Radio Caroline supported the Tories in the 1970s. In any case, my point being that if you don't believe in state control of the airwaves it would be consistent to not support state interference in social media.
Elon Musk is acting like a complete twat on twitter, personally I would like to see the platform banned in the UK, until there's a change in ownership, but I guess it's too big for that to happen.