Posted on 04/14/2018 4:47:19 PM PDT by HangnJudge
"Those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created," argues a new article in New York Magazine titled "The Internet Apologizes". Today, the most dire warnings are coming from the heart of Silicon Valley itself. The man who oversaw the creation of the original iPhone believes the device he helped build is too addictive. The inventor of the World Wide Web fears his creation is being "weaponized." Even Sean Parker, Facebook's first president, has blasted social media as a dangerous form of psychological manipulation. "God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains," he lamented recently...
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Well, “don’t be evil” does speak to the “good intentions” of the modern secular liberal.
The problem here is good and evil unanchored to God’s reference frame. The old Garden folly.
Rather than spending a lot of effort putting down secular liberals, we would be better situated to show them what a life looks like that does have good and evil anchored to God’s reference frame. In fact that is exactly what the gospel orders us to do! In every way make the gospel attractive. Putting down secular liberals is a literally God damned PRIDE game. I have decided to permanently sit that game out. Getting glory for God requires quite a different tack, even sympathetic in a way. You’re trying to do something good, dear secular liberals, but you’re doing it in a way that will never work because there isn’t a reliable reference frame.
Yes, given human nature you probably are right. I believe that the problem started with the monetization of the Internet in the early 1990s. Ironically the old 140 year old POTS phone system is now more “free” than the present Internet.
I don’t want social philosophy from the people who design my communications protocols anymore than I seek legal advice from the dog groomer. Just do your stinkin jobs and twiddle bits.
Even clumsy programming. We don’t need the malicious hacker to look for what happens if nobody locks their door. Enough that the drunk neighbor stumbles into your house and passes out on your bed.
These people are at least more perceptive — they know this network is going to be social so why not get ahead of the parade?
I think it morally is up to YOU and ME whether we need Facebook or Google or whatever, and if so, how much and in what way. If people want to wander into a cyber-public with loose minds, they should logically expect what they get.
Pop-ups are bad, but pop-unders are worse. They slow everything WAAYYY down and you can’t see why until you shrink the window you’re using.
From the article “The inventor of the World Wide Web fears his creation is being “weaponized.” Even Sean Parker, Facebook’s first president, has blasted social media as a dangerous form of psychological manipulation. “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains,” he lamented recently...”
The same can be said of TV media, homowood, and the archaic old media empire.
What brought on this apology? Per the article, it was the election of President Trump.
There is no apology for child pornography and abuse, other forms of sex trafficking or any of the other criminal activity that the internet enables and protects.
The other thing is that they really think that they are the cause of Trump’s election. They have no idea that “we the people” exist. They actually believe their own lies and that people can be so easily manipulated by them.
I wish them well and hope they find a way to liberate themselves from their own feedback loop of outrage.
“Weren’t there flame wars on Usenet in the 80s and 90s?”
You bet your bippie there were. And there was no place to get away from leftards.
The internet has created irreversible changes in how we interract, even how our brains work, but their real lament is that the leftist overlords do not have complete control over it and, by extention, us.
He certainly didn’t intend it to be used by Republicans.
rofl - that is the best cartoon I’ve seen in quite a while!
I love that song, especially the keyboards of Richard Wright. Also the absolute irony that lyrics by far-left Roger Waters so accurately describes the left in this song and also in Another Brick In The Wall ("We don't need no education...")
The Who song “Relay” was about something like the Internet....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jW9d3bbsYU
>USSR and Communist China come to mind
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If, if there is a misunderstanding about how screwed up the web is, all one needs to do is to go up to Drudge and read the comments section of probably every article posted.
Text, e.g. FR, can be really FAST.
Queen Victoria wanted "television" before it had a name or even existed so that her subjects could see her address them.
Charles Francis Jenkins began work on it in the late 19th century. He called it "radiovision" because "television" traveled by wire (what we call cable television) and he couldn't afford enough high grade wire to distribute his signals to viewers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Jenkins
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Also, I saw some WWII era pamphlets by the US government. One was titled What Is Propaganda (with a drawing of an angry Donald Duck on the cover). Another dealt with television and possible uses for the technology after the war. The Germans maintained their television broadcasts during the 1936 Olympics on through the war. Eventually programming was geared towards officers and recuperating injured soldiers. Their technology used film which was quickly processed and broadcast all in one motion. The films remain in archives (these were different than US kinoscopes filmed OFF of a television screen).
So at least England, the US, and Germany all recognized the potential for television to be used to project the message from The State. And one of the pioneers of the technology was well aware of that aspect of it.
Barack Obama used taxpayer funds to buy messaging in fictional programs while he was president, to push an agenda on State run health care and other things.
http://deadline.com/2013/10/obamacare-hollywood-tv-series-grant-607768/
https://www.vox.com/2017/8/31/16236280/trump-obamacare-outreach-ads
"Trump administration will significantly scale back both of these activities, spending millions less on each program. The Affordable Care Act's advertising budget has paid for digital messaging, television ads and radio spots."
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