As an iPhone user it blew my mind that speech-to-text works this well on a Pixel. Apple has certainly not brought the responsiveness of their touch screen to the voice format. x.com/jamescham/stat…
Free speech has never been "I can say anything I want on your privately-owned platform".
BUT
A select few US incorporated companies now have huge worrisome unchecked control over what is seen and not.
It's not an easy debate but it's an important one that needs to be ongoing.
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@JesperBylund @per_p To a large extent I agree. But who controls this is a bigger problem. We have a 'free speech' platform controlled by a US incorporated company. All Twitter decisions, even decisions not to act, are controlled by them. So the debate on this is needed, as I see it.
@JesperBylund @per_p And this move was a good way to really spark that debate :)
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@weylandswart The way Twitter did this I think is a good test. They are not deleting, condemning or saying anything in Trump's tweet is wrong. They are providing contextual links to the topic, essentially a "read more" link.
@weylandswart I also agree about how Twitter is becoming a free spech platform and I think we need that debate too. Should free speech be incorporated in a US company where I as a participant have no vote on who has power over decision-making? Twitter's move illustrates how fragile this is.
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@JesperBylund @per_p Isn't that exactly what is happening here? Trump's speech is not policed, it is there for everyone to see. Nobody deleted his tweet. Tech is adding context to a topic, and the context is provided by journalists. Twitter is enabling the visibility of the fact-checking journos.
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@JesperBylund @per_p It truly will. Let the games begin.
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@weylandswart I get this take, but everything influences public opinion - that's one reason this is happening.
There are so many facets to this. Is the platform of an incorporated company the definition of free speech? No simple answer to the core issue, but I believe we need this debate.
It’s been a long time coming. x.com/Reuters/status…
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@deeped Ett av förslagen på bordet, det som kallades ”Sparing sharing”, var designat för att motverka obalansen som skapas av så kallade super sharers, som ofta innebär att extremistiskt innehåll får oproportionerlig synlighet.
Ska läsa färdigt hela rapporten hos WSJ, och blogga :)
@deeped Men rent generellt så finns mycket inom design som kan göras för att uppmuntra till tydligare reflektion och eftertanke i samband med delningar. Jag kan inte komma från hur mycket bättre jag gillade när vi körde manuella retweets.
@deeped Eller ja, manuellt är det ju fortfarande, men alltså när vi var tvungna att skriva ’RT’ :)
Facebook studied how it polarizes users and exploits human attraction to divisiveness, warning in 2018 how ”if left unchecked” this would feed users with more and more divisive content in efforts to gain user attention.
Then they shelved the research.
mediamatters.org/facebook/bombs…
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@FDRsOldSpecs @DONTUCOMEFORUS @hamdia_ahmed This is a start. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_k…
In 2015, 837 people were killed by law enforcement in the US.
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@coconutlime @SarahPinsker I had to look it up. The Exorcist was released on December 26 (1973). So that oddly makes Christmas sense.
From the archives, an adaptation of a talk I did in 2013.
Explaining UX with a glass of lemonade.
axbom.blog/ux-lemonade/
In a great example of ethical policy, @Netflix will now offer to cancel subscriptions automatically when they are not being used. No more drawing money from your account in perpetuity for something you don't need.
media.netflix.com/en/company-blo…
I acknowledge this is a tiny dent in expenses. But that only goes to show that doing the right thing often makes financial sense. More importantly, it embeds itself in culture and teaches people to question the status quo.
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@berkun I wasn’t aware of these being called golden and platinum rules before. Thank you for that nugget :)
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@berkun I conversely believe that it is important not to assume that others would like to be treated as I would like to be treated. The fallacy is believing that everyone should be treated the same (the way I would like to be treated). I see lack of communication as the core problem.
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@opassande Medhåll. Hennes beteende var frutansvärt. Men ingen som dömer henne har pratat med henne. Eventuella bakomliggande trauman, ohälsa och sammanhang finns inte att tillgå. Offentliga skampålar av det här slaget är många gånger otäcka.