Online Safety Act
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Rhossydd
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Twitter published it and twitter's algorithms pushed the dangerous content onto her feed. They have responsibility for it.
Better moderation would have prevented her death.
Similarly other people have been driven to commit crimes of violence that they wouldn't have considered if they hadn't been deliberately exposed to lies and malicious content.
So you haven't grasped that people can become radicals by exposure to material that they wouldn't otherwise have been exposed to.
In case you hadn't noticed, your post's still here ;-)
Ollie78
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The algorithm just gives you what it thinks you want from previous interactions. If you click on 10 videos about cats it will keep sending you cat videos.
I know that people can become radicalised by what they are exposed to. Plenty of people have been radicalised before the internet as well, certain people are drawn to fanaticism.
You have to credit people with some intelligence and agency to think for themselves.
Sachakins
The most wasted of days is one without woodwork
I think given the way that lately police have been acting on some postings on social media sites and the government using legislature as a thought policing approach, then yes this site and most other forums fall foul by allowing what we refer to here as off topic 2 threads. Anyone can claim to be offended be anything, it no longer relates to just defined terms that are offensive, but now seems to be a broader encompassing narrative to silence even discussion on some agendas that don't meet the ruling governments points of view. There is much in the off topic 2 threads that could fall foul of "this", but the problem is what is "this"
We see, that as time goes on we are accepting more...of everything. Goods, services, TV, films, politics etc., and as we progress so we push the boundaries. Freedom of speech is enshrined in the US Constitution. Here, we have Freedom of expression. We are entitled to express ourselves by music, art, political views, press etc., But that's not what this is all about, is it? This is about the decay of courtesy, of manners and behaviour. because we seem to think it's modern.
As a consequence, the laws will inevitably have to evolve to keep pace with 'modern' behaviour. We won't end up in a dictatorship, the public wouldn't allow it, but we do need to maintain a watchful eye on the more detrimental extremists. For the generations yet to come.
As a consequence, the laws will inevitably have to evolve to keep pace with 'modern' behaviour. We won't end up in a dictatorship, the public wouldn't allow it, but we do need to maintain a watchful eye on the more detrimental extremists. For the generations yet to come.
Rhossydd
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No it doesn't, and that's the problem.
Read up on the Molly Russell case and you'll find that the algorithms pushed more and radically greater dangerous content to her than she ever started looking at.
If you've a Facebook account you'll find that you get pushed content that you've never searched for AT ALL. Maybe your 'friends' might have looked at it, maybe just people in groups you've joined have engaged with it. But you still get video content pushed at you that is irrelevant and offensive.
I'v had a facebook account for years and don't get any irrelevant or offensive content sent to me, it has got to be to do with where you have gone on facebook and the algorithms pick up on your likes.
It’s more insidious than that. It’s where people or groups you have connected to have looked/been interested in. So if you read a post about stained glass, others who have read that post might also have looked at church windows and other people who looked at church windows might have looked at religious iconography and others who looked at iconography might have looked at crucifixes. The algorithm might toss you a recommendation of crucifixions on the off chance you’ll click so they can monetise an add. It’s all about the probability of getting you to click. Of course once you’ve clicked the click bait you’ll get a lot more of the same plus even more of the seemingly random click bait offerings.
Rhossydd
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Lucky you. It's pretty obvious from my feed that content is being pushed at me that I've NEVER looked for or engaged with.
Spotting content that I might be interested in or have searched for is easy enough. It's also easy to see the algorithm thinking I might be interested in my friends interests too, although I don't have the same interests.
The rest must be coming from other people's interests in groups I'm a member of.
You can also watch (slow) changes in the pushed content as you drop out of some groups or join others. Joining some 3D printing groups last year saw totally new, and unwanted, content being pushed to my feed.
This is where social media becomes a menace as unwanted content is pushed at people who might not have the ability to spot hurtful content or misinformation.
