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Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok

hank
edited January 17 in Off-Topic
BBC out in front on story

I can sympathize with the users, whether social or business related. Has to hurt. Breaking addictions is very hard and can cause emotional distress and worse. And many use the business feature to support themselves. We are at the intersection of technology and national security. An early chapter.

Heck, I’d ban Facebook, Twitter and all the other non fact-checked crap (and FAUX too). But that’s just my selfish view. Bring back fact-checked newspapers with a sense of public responsibility and some accountability for their claims under the law I say!

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  • gman57
    I recently saw Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about AI and how he thinks it will obsolete social media. He feels people will get so fed up not knowing what is real and what is not real they will abandon it. I think he may be on to something. I use it less and less and mostly to find out what local activities are happening and what my friends might be doing. I ignore more and more social media news all the time.
  • hank
    edited January 17
    gman57 said:

    I recently saw Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about AI and how he thinks it will obsolete social media. He feels people will get so fed up not knowing what is real and what is not real they will abandon it. I think he may be on to something. I use it less and less and mostly to find out what local activities are happening and what my friends might be doing. I ignore more and more social media news all the time.

    I wonder why it is that these social sites can list local activities (I assume political gatherings, cultural & educational events, etc.) but that legitimate local newspapers can’t survive (even with online access)? Is it the sense you’re getting something for nothing when you join Facebook? What’s their business model then? Full of targeted ads? Or paid-off by pervayers of political propaganda? Don’t know. Just wondering. Must have been a “hoot” there during the Prez election campaign. I got my fill with the TV coverage - plus what spilled over on this site.
  • Sven
    edited January 17
    Often there is more than one answers or interpretations to the same piece of data. Fact checking is an essential element of getting accurate and quality information. Critical thinking was taught in my college days. How wrong is Elon Musk about trimming several trillion dollars from the government while he walked back his claims several weeks ago.

    Social media information is nothing more than the individual's comments provided on online articles. Take a look topics posted in here at MFO, comments are often posted with supporting sources and many discussion follows.
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    That's why I'm at MFO and at none of those other "social" whatever-they-ares.
  • hank
    edited January 18
    Old_Joe said:

    That's why I'm at MFO and at none of those other "social" whatever-they-ares.

    +1
    Sven said:

    ”Critical thinking was taught in my college days.”

    I had such a class myself in college, taught by an extremely gifted history instructor. He was light years ahead of the conventional method of teaching history (1960s).

    But in truth, CT is the essence of education. Any teacher worth his salt works towards that goal. CT can be applied to any subject matter. Some areas like social studies, writing, oral communications or literature, lend themselves more easily. But, really, critical thinking belongs everywhere. I like to think a lot of progress has been made in schools since the 60s. But when I read about books being banned by various socio-political groups I wonder.
  • MarkMark
    @Sven: it's not used enough either
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