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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Maybe this will lead to a future where Stochastic Terrorism isn't a protected activity?

[–] ItsMeSpez 5 points 8 months ago

As much as I believe it is a breeding ground for right wing extremism, it's a little strange that 4chan is being lumped in with these other sites for a suit like this. As far as I know, 4chan just promotes topics based on the number of people posting to it, and otherwise doesn't employ an algorithm at all. Kind of a different beast to the others, who have active algorithms trying to drive engagement at any cost.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

It’s ALWAYS someone else’s fault.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (16 children)

Are the platforms guilty or are the users that supplied the radicalized content guilty? Last I checked, most of the content on YouTube, Facebook and Reddit is not generated by the companies themselves.

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[–] antidote101 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Can we stop letting the actions of a few bad people be used to curtail our freedom on platforms we all use.

I don't want the internet to end up being policed by corporate AIs and poorly implemented bots (looking at you auto-mod).

The internet is already a husk of what it used to be, what it could be. It used to be personal, customisable... Dare I say it; messy and human...

.... maybe that was serving a need that now people feel alienated from. Now we live as corporate avatars who risk being banned every time we comment anywhere.

It's tiresome.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Tonight we investigate the hacker known as 4chan. More at 9.

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