2004: The Internet will lead to a utopian society without gatekeepers, without censorship, where we get our information from each other and primary sources, not media companies!
2024: The Internet is based on algorithmic attention. Those who control the algorithms control what parts of the immeasurably large pile of data will get attention and which not. Yet they are protected by the same intermediary liability laws as if they were traditional web forums, blog hosters, wikis with no personalized algorithm (for which those laws are very good and necessary).
To be fair, the comment mentioned censorship but not manipulation.
I’m a bit confused where you made out it was about manipulation when it was really about the rage algorithms.
But obviously the commenter misread the comment completely and thought OP was advocating for censorship when in reality it was his description of Internet utopia.
2004: The Internet will lead to a utopian society without gatekeepers, without censorship, where we get our information from each other and primary sources, not media companies!
2024: The Internet is based on algorithmic attention. Those who control the algorithms control what parts of the immeasurably large pile of data will get attention and which not. Yet they are protected by the same intermediary liability laws as if they were traditional web forums, blog hosters, wikis with no personalized algorithm (for which those laws are very good and necessary).
https://lemmy.world/comment/11235801
Stop using this to push your agenda about censorship and whatever. Censorship has never lead to anything good. Read the history books.
Did you reply to the wrong comment? Where did I defend censorship?
They are confusing censorship with manipulation. The algorithm is working.
To be fair, the comment mentioned censorship but not manipulation.
I’m a bit confused where you made out it was about manipulation when it was really about the rage algorithms.
But obviously the commenter misread the comment completely and thought OP was advocating for censorship when in reality it was his description of Internet utopia.