Hate the game, not the player

Yeah I’m an Aussie, but my American father in law tucks his shirt in, the only guy I know that does it

Why do Americans tuck their shirts in?

Can we just imagine if al Qaeda had added a journalist to their group chat regarding a bombing?

Very Confucian

Child neglect is probably the cause

I don’t know, I mean Gemini tells me that there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza

You might be interested in this piece from a government funded Australian think tank about escaping the current social media environment

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/social-media-as-it-should-be/

When you stop to think, they really don’t offer us anything other than a named place we all agreed to meet

Very fair, the persecution of Jack Ma was very interesting. Haven’t heard of what happened in Vietnam though?

You shouldn’t need to be authoritarian to crack down on these systems though. I really liked what I saw Lena Khan doing in the US, what Brazil did to twitter or what Julie Inman Grant did here in Australia

Sorry if you replied to this already, but I wanted to add that what I meant to say is that they hide behind the accountability we give them

I get what you’re trying to say, they can incentivise accuracy and they do at least prompt people to be more accurate lest the community holds them to account. But what i don’t like is that there is no standard that the notes are held to and there is no accountability if either the original post or the community note are wrong.

I also don’t like that the social media publishers are pushing the fact checkers onto the community to be done for free, but at the end of the day they own the community note and can delete it if they don’t like it. We are doing their work for them and taking accountability away from them

Lawsuits. As it stands the US supreme court is that social media companies can not be held liable for the things their users publish. Fact checking companies can be sued, news companies can be sued (see fox news and the voting machines lawsuit), Facebook can’t be held responsible in the same way

I hate community notes, it’s a cost free way of fact checking with no accountability.

I also hate these big international tech companies. Forget too big to fail, these are too big to change. We are all techno peasants and they are our tech lords

and they make fun of Xi and criticise their government just fine <

Did you forget about Hong Kong already? What happened to 50 years of " One Country - Two Systems"

The rules of American democracy are rigged, use that rage to change the game. I’ve been listening to Steve Bannons war room and there is a strong concern that both parties are owned by elites. There is a nascent solidarity that is there, it just needs some one to unite it.

Do they actually? I mean why can’t I sell my days. If I quit the big tech companies and paid for the equivalent services, could I sell that data at a auction? Not having a go at you, just wondering how much our individual data is actually worth.

Definitely a typo, my bad

100%, that’s always been the case since the printing press was invented, but at some point you need to know that hate speech isn’t free speech

Hmmm, maybe if that bottle of sugar is undermining democracy it shouldn’t be allowed. A democracy needs to protect itself from itself