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circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Twitter is not a utility. We really need to stop treating techbro services like utilities. If we feel they actually are utilities, the government can step in and make that claim and the appropriate changes.
If it’s a private company that con do what it wants, like blocking political opponents, it should not be under safe harbor protections.
That’s the point in yelling about this. If Elon wants a private forum for him and his mates, he should also be fully responsible when his mates posts child porn on his servers.
Which safe harbor protections?
Section 230 of the CDA
And the EFF has a primer on Section 230, and several opinion pieces about why nerfing 230 would be a terrible idea:
Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230 by Cory Doctorow
Holy Unholy, this is written by The Enshittification Guy!
Show a little repsect, “The Enshittification Guy” is Cory Doctorow a very well known author and activist.
The EU has declared Twitter and a few others to be gate-keepers and they will now be held to a higher standard. But I don’t think the EU is going to use this power to save US democracy.
I disagree. We should nationalize it.
RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You would be shocked to know how many people use TikTok as a search engine
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I’m not on tiktok, but I’ll admit to using YouTube as a search engine a lot. Also googling something and immediately hitting the video tab before reading any of the results.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
You video guys work different.
Chocrates@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I must be a dinosaur because for most things I am looking up I want concise textual information. I’ll look for videos to explain larger complicated concepts
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I only find videos useful if I’m trying to figure out something that’s procedural. Seeing the procedures and steps done in front of me helps me grasp the concept much faster than text.
For just information though, text is golden and video is a waste of time.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
i hate it, but i just cant find decent written resulta anymore outside of reddit and such
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That’s how I use Bing. 😻
stellargmite@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I liken using groogle for finding factual information to using the yellowpages for doing the same. YT isn’t much better but it suffers many of the conflicts of interest traditional media outlets also had, depending on the corporation. In this case the almighty algorithm is the conflict of interest, though there are clever content creators out there making some good stuff, they’ll always be beholden to the owners of the platform and the true customers - the advertisers. As an advertising platform which can direct punters to actual long form content directly supported by watchers via patreon or similar, I understand why it is used : the sheer numbers using it.
Petter1@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I just ask chatGPT…
lightnegative@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why? All it’s going to do is output some words that have a statistical correlation to your input words