Climbing Out Of Facebook’s Reality Hole by Mat Honan.
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The proliferation of fake news and filter bubbles across the platforms meant to connect us have instead divided us into tribes, skilled in the arts of abuse and harassment. Tools meant for showing the world as it happens have been harnessed to broadcast murders, rapes, suicides, and even torture. Even physics have betrayed us! For the first time in a generation, there is talk that the United States could descend into a nuclear war. And in Silicon Valley, the zeitgeist is one of melancholy, frustration, and even regret — except for Mark Zuckerberg, who appears to be in an absolutely great mood.
The Facebook CEO took the stage at the company’s annual F8 developers conference a little more than an hour after news broke that the so-called Facebook Killer had killed himself. But if you were expecting a somber mood, it wasn’t happening. Instead, he kicked off his keynote with a series of jokes.
It was a stark disconnect with the reality outside, where the story of the hour concerned a man who had used Facebook to publicize a murder, and threaten many more. People used to talk about Steve Jobs and Apple’s reality distortion field. But Facebook, it sometimes feels, exists in a reality hole. The company doesn’t distort reality — but it often seems to lack the ability to recognize it.
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I can’t say I’m fond of the Facebook reality hole but unlike Honan:
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It can make it harder to use its platforms to harass others, or to spread disinformation, or to glorify acts of violence and destruction.
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I have no desire to censor any of the content that anyone cares to make and/or view on it. Bar none.
The “default” reality settings desired by Honan and others are a thumb on the scale for some cause they prefer over others.
Entitled to their preference but I object to their setting the range of preferences enjoyed by others.
You?