Radicalisation is inherent with algorithms
If I watch one video, it'll recommend me more similar videos that may be more or less extreme. Usually the amount of extreme videos outweighs the normal ones therefore you get radicalised.
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But it could never happen to you, right?
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Thu 16 Jan 2025, 18:55,
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I do think algorithms
are where governments should crack down on social media.
They've basically trained a mob who they can rile up about free speech if you try and censor content, but none of them are going to fight to protect the algorithms or the gambling tricks being used to make them addicted.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 16 Jan 2025, 23:23,
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I know 4 people irl who
have been sent mad as a lorry by social media. It's terrifying to see.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 16 Jan 2025, 23:27,
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Oh I know a few of them too.
Angry at trans people they've never met, angry at grooming gangs but just the brown ones, angry at refugees, suddenly very proud of their accident of birth, suddenly very worried that basic human decency has gone too far.
You can't be reasoned out of something you've been dumbed into, apparently. Now I'm mainly just trying not to call them stupid fucking cunts, but not always succeeding.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 19:41,
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