I also have the same question. So I upvoted you. Also, where does this fall on the chart?

Smarter Americans in that past recognized that freedom, including the free market, doesn’t just happen of its own accord, that it has to be defended, legislated. That is how antitrust laws came to be in arguably the most capitalist nation on earth.

Apathetic Americans now have lost sight of the importance of protecting their freedoms.

“Illegal” is not just some hypothetical moral absolute. It is the politics of defending one’s values. Americans clearly no longer value either their freedoms or the free market.

Biden should just take these rulings and do his own Jan 6. Suck on it Trump and MAGA sycophants, time for you to reap what you sow.

I can’t believe anyone would look at that demo and think anything remotely close to “I’d play that for more than 2 minutes”.

Social media platforms are not havens of free speech. There’s nothing free about how the algorithms influence what sorts of information people are exposed to. The idea that companies get to have “free speech” is a cancer on society.

You are confusing the Internet and the web. You should look it up.

I tried it maybe 4 months ago and it felt like a AAA bloated mess maybe 1 year into development.

I continue to maintain that a list of features and a big budget does not make a good game. What makes a good game is an engaging experience, where the features exist to serve that experience.

Democracy doesn’t work when centralized powers build tools like TikTok or Facebook to influence people’s thoughts with bias and other psychological hacks.

If it were me, I would ban all social media platforms larger than 100,000, and create task forces to reign in on predatory marketing and social media collusion.

People just can’t be trusted to see how they are constantly being manipulated by companies with deep pockets and foreign governments. Children and adults alike. It’s not people’s fault either.

Either that or we need a widespread social repudiation of these platforms, a wake up to the fact that our minds are constantly being poisoned, like Tobacco was reigned in.

Sounds like this is the inevitable outcome of ethnic/theocratic nationalism. It matters little which group is doing. The mere act of drawing boundaries on the basis of personal identity will inevitably devolve into genocide of certain groups, as a means of abusing power.

Never, ever, ever, ever volunteer personal information, for any reason, on a call you did not initiate, with a number you haven’t verified from a trusted source, like a brick and mortar branch, or your online banking account.

The SCOTUS and other institutions will not save democracy.

This bears repeating. The SCOTUS and other institutions will not save democracy.

Institutions are corruptible. SCOTUS has been corrupted. That is where the US is.

Only citizen action can safeguard democracy.

With some exceptions, enthusiasm in technology is in decline in general. We are peaking in terms of rate of progress across the board, from computer speed to smart phone innovation to TV specs. When’s the last time ordinary folks got excited about a new phone release? Who cares about a TV larger than 60 inches? It’s not like most people can even afford a wall big enough to put it on. Who cares about anything more than 4k on a tiny screen?

Meanwhile, the cost of living is only increasing, and consumer trust in product life support is in decline. Stories about TVs listening to private conversations, or holding your device hostage for forced TOS updates, anti-right to repair, the mountain of e-waste and micro plastics, pervasive DRM, enshitified services, subscription hardware…

Should we be surprised? No.

The only thing that gets me excited about tech any more is repairability and offline/local networking.

Silly of you to assume that that is about end user’s free speech and not the “free speech” of a company to release a product to market.

In all seriousness, I think hostile foreign governments have an interest in destabilizing the public discourse of other countries. I get the memes comparing data collection between TikTok and American tech firms. But the fact remains that the US government can reign in foreign influence of domestic social media, where as it has absolutely no control over foreign social media. The fact that border protection never extended to the digital space is in hindsight kind of strange. It’s also completely asinine to expect any sort of free speech on a platform subject to an authoritarian government.

All that is left is letting people without a watch history default to seeing their subscriptions instead of a blank page. That’s the whole point of subscribing: I want my own curated experience. I don’t want to watch BS YouTube thinks I want to watch.

It was a mistake letting YouTube decide on behalf of everyone that recommendations was a better experience than letting the users decide for themselves what to watch. The recommendations are no less of an echo chamber. Worse, the recommendations are gamed with churned, garbage content. It’s the same problem as google search.

We need a return to form of user-curated content. Down with algorithmic recommendations.

“Trust in AI” is layperson for “believe the technology is as capable as it is promised to be”. This has nothing to do with stupidity or nefariousness.