• jsdz@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It’s Mitchell Baker’s expression of the naive but still-fashionable idea that the way to deal with the evils of today’s dominant centralized social media is to tweak the algorithms and otherwise adjust things so that they do not promote undesirable effects such as all the “culture war” bullshit. It was instantly seized on by people using it to promote culture war bullshit, perhaps in large part because it mentioned Donald Trump. As part of a series of simplistic yet easy-to-misinterpret statements the reaction to which seemingly persuaded Baker to stick with more safely bland and meaningless public statements in more recent times, it is perhaps of some historical interest. But it’s unclear why you’ve dug it up now if not with some ulterior motive in mind.

    • Maddison@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      1 year ago

      I have an ulterior motive in mind. I don’t like her and I don’t like censoring people, left or right. I would have stood up for the right of a person on the left not to be censored (unless children were involved in it somehow), I was wondering if people here who obviously are of a left bent would give the people on the right the same privilege. This was the ulterior evil motive of mine