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.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
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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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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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