Yeah this is a weird selection of companies. What about Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, even 4chan?
At the very least the social media sites that use algorithmic recommendations heavily. The recent shooting in Colorado got me thinking about how social media algorithms that repeatedly pushes content thats found to engage can easily cause people to fall into a spiral of radicalization. Even just the slightest interest in something, or even shock, can trigger their algorithms to get to work recommending similar stuff. News sites mentioned the kid in Colorado that shot up the school had social media accounts full of shit that glorified school shootings. How’d that start? Maybe something popped up that made a joke about school shootings and he thought it was funny cause its “edgy” or something? And then it remembers that, and pushes another similar post, and another, and on and on until this kid’s feed is supposedly full of this kind of content. I don’t know if that happened but it seems likely.
But nah, its valve that they’re going after. Cause I guess its always the video games that are to blame, right?
And discord? That’s just a fancy chat board. What’s next, should we question IRC? Email?
Yeah this is a weird selection of companies. What about Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, even 4chan?
At the very least the social media sites that use algorithmic recommendations heavily. The recent shooting in Colorado got me thinking about how social media algorithms that repeatedly pushes content thats found to engage can easily cause people to fall into a spiral of radicalization. Even just the slightest interest in something, or even shock, can trigger their algorithms to get to work recommending similar stuff. News sites mentioned the kid in Colorado that shot up the school had social media accounts full of shit that glorified school shootings. How’d that start? Maybe something popped up that made a joke about school shootings and he thought it was funny cause its “edgy” or something? And then it remembers that, and pushes another similar post, and another, and on and on until this kid’s feed is supposedly full of this kind of content. I don’t know if that happened but it seems likely.
But nah, its valve that they’re going after. Cause I guess its always the video games that are to blame, right?
And discord? That’s just a fancy chat board. What’s next, should we question IRC? Email?
You know why. Because the CEOs of the first three bent the knee to the facists already, and the last one is a breeding ground for MAGA.
This is just the next round of CEOs to be intimidated into submission. Some of them won’t need intimidation of course, spez will be happy.