Edwin Cervantes

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Edwin Cervantes

Edwin Cervantes

@ecerv2004

ELAC; Movieholic/TV show enthusiast; JFK liberal; Live life one day at a time, enjoy the little things, & dream on.

Los Angeles County 가입일 Aralık 2014
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pixar lamp@bruh76027799·
@ecerv2004 @clairlemon @JMchangama You’re not getting that what comes up when you search *is* what is given to you, in contrast to the entire world of available context It’s like assuming flat earth when people who have seen the big picture know it’s not And prior to 2020’s you could see the big picture
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Claire Lehmann
Claire Lehmann@clairlemon·
I don't really understand the free speech argument when it relates to kids. Pornography is speech, but we don't go around broadcasting it to kids. So why do platforms that promote thinspiration influencers suddenly get a pass because of free speech?
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Angry Staffer@Angry_Staffer·
Still can’t get over the House GOP rejecting a 100-0 bill from the Senate to fund TSA, Coast Guard, and FEMA and… just going on vacation. Complete abdication of duty.
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Edwin Cervantes@ecerv2004·
@bruh76027799 @clairlemon @JMchangama You have user autonomy. You can look up whatever you want outside what is given to you, you can restrict your content from other people. Or you can not use social media at all. Take some responsibility for what you post or look up.
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pixar lamp@bruh76027799·
@ecerv2004 @clairlemon @JMchangama It even resembles anti-trust concerns in this new environment where there is a worldwide market of speech to access. Why would it ever be ethical to erode user autonomy to monopolize certain content?
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pixar lamp
pixar lamp@bruh76027799·
@ecerv2004 @clairlemon @JMchangama This was not a discovery lol, this was the root of the issue from the get-go It’s the abuse of this principal to maximize profits that is predatory
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pixar lamp
pixar lamp@bruh76027799·
@ecerv2004 @clairlemon @JMchangama That’s confusing the issue once again. Nobody is concerned about the expression of free speech. They are concerned about the speech they cannot see, because the feed is *already* curated for you by an overarching entity
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pixar lamp@bruh76027799·
@ecerv2004 @clairlemon @JMchangama It is. And also the search function is still algorithmically curated. What comes up (and *only* what comes up) is what it thinks you want to see. You are unable to use these services autonomously. It erodes society by drowning them in slop.
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Edwin Cervantes
Edwin Cervantes@ecerv2004·
@bruh76027799 @clairlemon @JMchangama Speech no matter how intelligent or otherwise is protected, whether you like it or not. Using it is a choice and you can always choose not to use it or swipe left on the algorithms. You have that agency so you have no excuses to let government do it for you.
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pixar lamp@bruh76027799·
@ecerv2004 @clairlemon @JMchangama 1. You are taking the analogy too literally, which is impeding you from taking the intuitive point that it is ‘manipulative bait’ which erodes your autonomy. 2. Your argument intriguingly seems to be that you *should* be able to cause harm, the burden of protection on victims
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pixar lamp
pixar lamp@bruh76027799·
@ecerv2004 @clairlemon @JMchangama It’s fraud. Don’t pretend like the algorithm doesn’t inhibit autonomous use. You can’t even search for relevant results anymore, all curated
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Edwin Cervantes
Edwin Cervantes@ecerv2004·
@bruh76027799 @clairlemon @JMchangama Wow, that’s a new one: equating your social media addiction to child kidnapping. Am I to understand that parents are not responsible whatsoever for their child’s wellbeing in any of your paranoiac scenarios?
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pixar lamp@bruh76027799·
@ecerv2004 @clairlemon @JMchangama You’re strategically (also suspiciously) dancing around the fact that the reason to put an algorithm in in the first place is that the same reason why creeps offer candy, in particular, out of their vans They know they can manipulate, and do so. That shouldn’t be legal.
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Edwin Cervantes
Edwin Cervantes@ecerv2004·
@bruh76027799 @clairlemon @JMchangama No they’re not. They’re one and the same. Government has no business regulating speech except under four narrow exceptions: fraud, obscenity, defamation, and imminent threats. And no, algorithms do not fall under any of these nor is it a fifth one.
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Pop Base
Pop Base@PopBase·
Nick Cannon calls Democrats “the party of the KKK”: “People don’t know that the Democrats are the party of the KKK. People don’t know that the Republicans are the party that freed the slaves.”
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Edwin Cervantes@ecerv2004·
@VIK19941 @Anshella22586 @PopBase Using your own logic about JFK, Nixon would be a liberal Democrat by today’s standards since he created the EPA, expanded Medicare and Medicaid, and it was his own Justices along with the rest of the court that legalized abortion for 50 years.
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pixar lamp@bruh76027799·
@ecerv2004 @clairlemon @JMchangama I’ll point out, once again, that the whole reason they are hiding behind a red herring is because they are aware of the harm it causes
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