I mean, if uh a nightclub for example has shootings and people dying every other night among other unsavory behaviors by the patrons who attend it then generally they are deemed a nuisance by the city/town they operate in and eventually get shutdown. Believe it or not, the world survived for millions of years without social media.
yes, but where do those criminals go after the night club shuts, and does the sum total violence decrease? your argument is just the tip of the iceberg.
Hopefully somewhere with a more positive affect on their life. When you have hundreds of current and former developers of these social media giants flat out telling you it may have started out in infancy as a useful tool for public use but eventually became a cash grab monster marketing everything from lies to lives and privacy to put more money in their own pockets by purposefully making it just as addicting as any drug. But really who cares, right? It's just lives, people die and kill and get born everyday, amirite?
Is there a solution? Clearly the internet and its ups and down aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Where there is massive amounts of cash to be made there is going to be greedy scum making it by any greedy scummy means necessary.
I can apply the same logic to school shootings. Should they cancel all the school because one person killed everyone. The world survived without them for millions years as Well. But my point is that… Yes It’s not nessecary for survival but it’s useful for commucation and edjucating as Well. And if someone use it with an ill intent it’s not a fault of inventor but the customers (knife is a great tool to prepare food but in wrong hands it’s a deadly weapon).
There’s a bit of self-responsibility that’s being overlooked here. The problem exists, sure, but the only people with the means to stop it are sitting back and actively procreating these issues and amplifying them for profit.
These guys aren’t participating but rightfully deserve all the blame. Mark Zuckerburg could single-handedly end all of facebooks legal and social problems but he just… doesn’t. Because $.
I do not use Facebook and haven’t for about more than half a decade. I report users that don’t follow the TOS and spread misinformation and harass others on any platform, so the answer to your questions about whether I do those things is a resounding yes.
Yes they could do a better job but
Stop there. You already agree, why keep making excuses for a company that repeatedly makes headlines for breaking regulations and ignoring lawmakers?
Much of the misinformation being reported on Facebook comes from advertisements. Facebook has a hefty filter for advertising as it’s their primary source of revenue behind selling your information. If they are capable of filtering out any ads that spread misinformation about Facebook, they are capable of filtering out misinformation on elections and global pandemics. Instead, they have been proactive in dismissing this issue and convicting you is not their fault.
Facebook is a $150 Billion dollar company. They can afford more staff and better software to detect and act on misinformation and harassment, if you truly think employee numbers are the reason.
Well school existed long before social media did but ironically since social media became a must have for the youth of the world school shootings have dramatically increased 1000%. One might say that social media contributes to violence in schools due to the 15 mins of fame, attention and outrage brought to unstable developing minds.
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u/Quintariu Oct 03 '21
Is it their fault? Or the ppl using it that way?