The first half of this made more sympathetic to ZuckerBorg's position. Which made me puke into the back of my mouth as soon as I noticed it, but that's how unimpressive I found their discussion.
"Legacy media" is DOGE phrase. Huh? This was already a descriptive term for pre-digital media during Occupy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/podcasts/hardfork-meta-zuck-o3.html
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#podcasts #NYTimes #Platforner #HardFork #FreedomOfExpression
They even throw out the old 'it's only censorship when states do it'. Sigh.
Any institution with large scale gatekeeping power over communication can censor. But more to the point, there are plenty of examples of #DataFarming platforms suppressing speech on behalf of states (eg Christchurch Call, WeChat). So this hair-splitting sophistry is not at all convincing.
There are so many substantial criticisms of Meta now, that they're kind of praising them with faint criticism.
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Because Meta's platforms block interactions with any other social web service, people can't change to a mod team other than Meta's (ie move to a different social service) without losing contact with all their current contacts.
But our hosts are focused on the arrangement of the deck chairs on the Titantic, in the form of whether Meta's famously ineffective moderation is triggered by a Trained #MOLE or reports from people using the service. Fediverse mods do just fine without a MOLE.
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This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
