2,162,798
All I know is that people hide behind their key boards and fake profiles to attack anything and everything they disagree with often in a vicious and nasty way.
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Jennifer Mackay
Panama City, FL
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
921,504
'...weaponizing pretty much everything that could be weaponized."
I think you are zeroed on the wrong culprit.
It is true that if you control access to information, you control the society.
FB and Google are controlling access to information.
However, political correctness and the entitlement mentality is what has created the need for weapons. SM simply allows those so included to segregate themselves into their desired echo chambers.
ONCE so immersed, these folks need to wear the T-shirt emblazoned with "I don't understand a single word you are saying."
Standing firmly on the ground of their entitlement, they are incapable of seeing their own transgression. The only see those not like them as their enemy. And for enemies, we need more weapons.
It won't get better until we are willing to open the front door and welcome a stranger inside. Will it begin with you?
PS: Don't blame the tools for a sickness within society.
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
2,191,449
1,846,851
I think it's a stretch IMHO.
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
1,056,097
Wow. Did she nail that dead on or what?
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
4,800,132
I haven't read this yet, but I will. I do agree with the premise.
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
2,784,416
We are entering un-charted waters
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
4,319,773
Ron and Alexandra Seigel - love the phrase 'Digital Arms Dealers'! Sounds right at times. (I mean NY Times...)
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
3,986,308
6,416,169
So many opinions on this, would be nice to see solutions that work.
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
991,152
FB and the personalities that inhabit it are why I no longer involve myself with it - oh and the fact they censor the wrong people - figures!
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
2,684,569
I don't read the NYT, so not yet. Let me read your article, BBL.
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
1,712,776
1,505,863
Too long to read fully, not a fan of the term "weaponize". More accurate woudl be "FB has allowed those with mal intent to pervert the course of free and open discussion and to attempt to mold views to their needs."
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
3,349,229
7,862,331
Thanks for sharing this link.
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
5,060,188
Hadn't seen it but will take a look.
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
1,045,440
5,877,179
2,071,025
4,434,177
3,071,489