re: #71 Hecuba’s daughter

I got into a brief FB exchange yesterday with someone who complained about Twitter suspending accounts of conservatives — she ultimately gave James Woods, Jack Prosobiec, and Robert O’Neill as examples. Other than purging real bots and perhaps identifying foreign agent, SM platforms may be in a no-win situation. We really don’t want censors reading every word everyone writes — and you cannot hire enough people to review the language anyway, when hundreds of millions of users are on these platforms. It’s not only vile memes and personal attacks — what if they are spreading false information? A news organization can impose strict rules on its employees and control what they publish. But I’m not really sure what can be done if a private citizen starts promoting lies/distortions like Pizzagate or Uranium One or Seth Rich under their personal account.

I wonder if these platforms could put in some kind of a notice that is triggered by key words in content that would pop up and tell the person writing the content and then those that read it, there are facts that do not support the comment and if you want to further educate yourself here is a link to something like a Wiki encyclopedia that has the alternatives. Maybe it could also mention something could be dangerous, illegal, racists, etc., etc.

Maybe it makes some aware they are off into the weeds of wacko land if they keep getting pop-ups and it either makes them read the facts or they grow frustrated and stop posting the bullshit and go back to talking about family, friends, events, etc.

Maybe the database keeps a score of the crazy factor for the user and if they score high the pop-ups become more and more, bigger and bigger and maybe even to the point it just opens another page with the facts.

Or it could say, YOU ARE A LOSER! Get a Life.

Just a thought.