Humans are a social species, equipped with few defenses against the natural world beyond our ability to acquire knowledge and stay in groups that work together. We are particularly susceptible to glimmers of novelty, messages of affirmation and belonging, and messages of outrage toward perceived enemies. These kinds of messages are to human community what salt, sugar, and fat are to the human appetite. And Facebook gorges us on them — in what the company’s first president, Sean Parker, recently called “a social-validation feedback loop.” | |
=========== Sure, it is a golden age of free speech — if you can believe your lying eyes. =========== |
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There are, moreover, no nutritional labels in this cafeteria. For Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, all speech — whether it’s a breaking news story, a saccharine animal video, an anti-Semitic meme, or a clever advertisement for razors — is but “content,” each post just another slice of pie on the carousel. A personal post looks almost the same as an ad, which looks very similar to a New York Times article, which has much the same visual feel as a fake newspaper created in an afternoon. | |
What’s more, all this online speech is no longer public in any traditional sense. Sure, Facebook and Twitter sometimes feel like places where masses of people experience things together simultaneously. But in reality, posts are targeted and delivered privately, screen by screen by screen. Today’s phantom public sphere has been fragmented and submerged into billions of individual capillaries. Yes, mass discourse has become far easier for everyone to participate in — but it has simultaneously become a set of private conversations happening behind your back. Behind everyone’s backs. | |
— Zeynep Tufekci | |
From her article: “It’s the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech“ | |
Appearing in: Wired Magazine; dtd: February 2018 | |
On-line at: https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-tech-turmoil-new-censorship/ | |
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