Sunday, November 8, 2020

Personal and Social Surveliance

To start off, we must always question why we are seeing certain results in our search log, why we are being recommended a specific type of video, why we are being shown things that we have searched months ago. What is the agenda that these social media sites and by extension these monopolized tech companies have, and what role do you play in their predictive machine? As individuals we judge and police other individuals that come out on our feed because of the systems these platforms have integrated into our personal accounts. The executives realize that there is too much content to control and protect on the internet therefore they have created these features and algorithms to help them manage and keep a balance in social discourse. I however do not think that this is enough, there is so much junk information that is irrelevant to users of social media, and so much false information that we are now seeing rising levels of ignorance and the growth of communities who exacerbate this false information. We are at the point of that not, executives, not algorithms, and not the users themselves can control the information so there are automatic disclaimers on tweets, and other social media posts warning viewers that information about this specific post "may" be false, and they even provide a link to that resource the platform has created. This is not really anyone fault as even adult human minds can change perspectives on beliefs they had indoctrinated themselves into believing. This is a consequence that is fundamentally the fault of humans having a subjective view on what truth means to them.

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