None of this, of course, has any bearing on Noam Chomsky’s achievement. Her was for more than 60 years, the country’s greatest dissident – active in the civil rights, anti-war and anti-nuclear movements, and an outspoken opponent of imperialist adventurism and violence.

Nah, toss him out along with Heidegger, it certainly does have bearing on his ‘achievement’

Directly citing hitler for inspo

Stuff that would never pass an IRB is somehow just unregulated outside of academia

Awhile back someone on here suggested maybe we’re trying to implement all of the fictional dystopias at the same time, so per the theory it might be because of Black Mirror or that podcast that we’re doing this.

I would prefer them to go after mechanisms like this over tying all web activity to IDs I guess, but punishing and penalizing companies that have clear ill intent and demonstrate a lack of moral scruples seems the most efficient way to address the issues we’re seeing with social media design.