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Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content.

nickiwest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Debate, education and engagement take time.

The algorithm is instantaneously ready with the next easily digestible bit of content to send you further down the rabbit hole into radicalization.

I worry that we need a more instantaneous cure in our current information environment.

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surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
“Instantaneous cure” sounds like you’re suggesting something super fucked up.

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- nickiwest@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m not, really. I just don’t think we have the luxury of taking the amount of time that we would need to educate people thoroughly enough to counteract the algorithm.
  
  Probably what we need is a limitation on free speech where blatant misinformation is involved. In the same way that shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theatre is harmful, so is repeating false claims to stir political discord.
  
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  - surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The eagerness to censor people, and not the companies pushing the shit, is such peak fascist bootlicking behavior.
    
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