This is fascinating, and disturbing. a few thoughts are that UK police when cataloging child pornography for courts were given regular breaks, counselling and, what stuck in my mind, watched BBC children programming on TV at the same time just to counter the overwhelming ness
this overwhelming is human - we extrapolate from our experience what the world
is "really" like - so a flood of beheading videos teaches you the world is fucked up. We as society do urgently need to get a grip on this - it's not just the extreme end but how skewed away from BBC-normal is the viewing diet of the average youtube kid?
I think there are solutions to the scale problem. the facebook brute force approach is interesting - but at 6.5M per week unmanageable.
I think this needs to be something dealt with as social media deals with everything - farmed out to the community. what we have is a free to publish environment. but we as society have really no insight in what is published - whereas previously there were few
enough newspapers one could read it all.
so why not have an approach like recaptcha - every day or so you get a suspicious post in your feed, and are asked to comment. Feedback can be something like "95 of your friends think that post was offensive enough you should be jailed" - this would be valuable human level
feedback that is not available in "likes". one can easily
see it as a way to understand the different universes of people
online - the fox-hunting lobby generally approved your post showing a bloodying but people who like superhero movies were revolted.
I can see the apple faceID thing here being an interesting measure of revulsion ...
Ultimately social media has been a consequence free zone for publishers (posters). By adding in feedback from
friends and wider society we can get a much needed insight into what is happening around us, and the feedback will
often be a useful control rod for people
posting - as it is online.
Long unfocused rant but interesting thoughts.
One final thing - Berlin has sufficient immigrant population that it can recruit 1000 multi lingual multi cultural immigrants (plus churn - author lasted 3 months) with enough tech savvy to be moderators. Just want to mention that to the 52% of UK that think we can be a tech hub after telling all the immigrants to piss off.
this overwhelming is human - we extrapolate from our experience what the world is "really" like - so a flood of beheading videos teaches you the world is fucked up. We as society do urgently need to get a grip on this - it's not just the extreme end but how skewed away from BBC-normal is the viewing diet of the average youtube kid?
I think there are solutions to the scale problem. the facebook brute force approach is interesting - but at 6.5M per week unmanageable.
I think this needs to be something dealt with as social media deals with everything - farmed out to the community. what we have is a free to publish environment. but we as society have really no insight in what is published - whereas previously there were few enough newspapers one could read it all.
so why not have an approach like recaptcha - every day or so you get a suspicious post in your feed, and are asked to comment. Feedback can be something like "95 of your friends think that post was offensive enough you should be jailed" - this would be valuable human level feedback that is not available in "likes". one can easily see it as a way to understand the different universes of people online - the fox-hunting lobby generally approved your post showing a bloodying but people who like superhero movies were revolted.
I can see the apple faceID thing here being an interesting measure of revulsion ...
Ultimately social media has been a consequence free zone for publishers (posters). By adding in feedback from friends and wider society we can get a much needed insight into what is happening around us, and the feedback will often be a useful control rod for people posting - as it is online.
Long unfocused rant but interesting thoughts.
One final thing - Berlin has sufficient immigrant population that it can recruit 1000 multi lingual multi cultural immigrants (plus churn - author lasted 3 months) with enough tech savvy to be moderators. Just want to mention that to the 52% of UK that think we can be a tech hub after telling all the immigrants to piss off.