ARGVMI~1.PIF

Some people have been preaching #SafetyByDesign principles. I would like to point out a huge problem with one of them.

Namely, the principle that profiles should be hidden by default.

This feature exists on Reddit right now. You know who uses it most? Dishonest people, who use the feature to conceal their history of dishonesty.

This allows them to do the same thing as the snake oil salesmen of the Wild West, going from town to town and running the same dishonest scheme over and over again.

May 26 at 10:44pmWeb
Show threadARGVMI~1.PIFMay 26
This isn't safety by design. This is making us all *less* safe.
Show threadARGVMI~1.PIFMay 26

Another “safety by design” principle is that platforms are to somehow automatically block all harmful content before it is posted.

Billions of dollars and decades of work have already been done on that, and it all failed miserably. Policy-obeying content gets randomly censored and its innocent authors banned. Bad actors speak in paper-thin euphemisms and get away scot-free.

It's impossible. Completely, absolutely impossible.

Show threadARGVMI~1.PIFMay 26

I will give these people some credit for going after the recommendation algorithms that most major platforms have.

Harmful content existing is a fact of life. There's no way to permanently get rid of all of it without shutting down all methods of communication entirely.

But recommendation algorithms trying to hold our attention by analyzing and manipulating our emotions? That's not inevitable. That's not a fact of life. We had perfectly good chat long before those algorithms were invented.

Show threadGreen Roc ThoughtsMay 26

@argv_minus_one So many efforts to prevent/ban bad actors is defeating so many innocents, including me, who is often misjudged as a bad actor.

I love to multibox, and I do it in a way that does not hurt anyone... It helps me cope with cooperative video games so I can play by myself, with a sidekick also controlled by me.

So many rules and paperwork getting in the way of basic vital services, like SS income :(

Show threadLeo (he/him) 🇺🇦May 26
@argv_minus_one Yep. May 4, Reddit auto banned me for 3 days for a false positive. May 21st, they agreed with my appeal and restored the post long after my ban expired
Show threadmillennial fulcrumMay 26

@yildo @argv_minus_one interesting.

banned from reddit does seem a bit "they wouldnt let me back in the prison after releasing me" but I fully appreciate change is rattling.

Show threadStephanie 🎀May 26
@argv_minus_one This is why I don’t comment on Instagram anymore. It’s extremely painful every time it happens.
Show threadmillennial fulcrumMay 26
@BeamsAndBows @argv_minus_one yep. same reason I dont eat cheese out of mousetraps. sometimes things are designed specifically to do harm and succeed at that.
Show threadARGVMI~1.PIFMay 26

@falcennial @BeamsAndBows

Well, now the world's governments are trying to prohibit everyone from putting cheese anywhere other than in a mousetrap, all while claiming they're doing it to protect the mouse pups.