Posted on 12/08/2023 7:41:04 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Former Vice President Al Gore is calling for a ban on social media algorithms, which he bizarrely compared to AR-15s, saying they are the “digital equivalent” of the firearm leftists love to hate.
“If you have social media that is dominated by algorithms that pull people down these rabbit holes that are a bit like pitcher plants,” Gore said at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP28). “These algorithms, they are the digital equivalent of AR-15s, they ought to be banned — they really ought to be banned.”
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“social media that is dominated by algorithms that pull people down these rabbit holes that are a bit like pitcher plants”
OK. Put the pipe down, Al.
And algore is the deepstate equivalent of social media algorithms.
Awww man! Now I gotta go out and buy ANOTHER AR-15!
Hardly the same as an AR, but yeah ... the social media algorithms suck.
Release my chakra! RELEASE MY CHAKRA!!!
Maybe Mrs. Gore saw a bunch of smut on Al’s social media feeds. LOL
You should listen
He invented the Internet
I must be losing it — or maybe Gore is losing it — because I have no idea what he means by this. Down the rabbit hole to the echo chamber and the pitcher plant.
WERE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!
Is that the SoreLoserMan I see peeking around that corner???
AzoneAlGore is another one of those leftist imbeciles.
Anything with the potential to get in the way of complete control is the moral equivalent of an AR-15.
> …I have no idea what he means by this. Down the rabbit hole to the echo chamber and the pitcher plant. <
It’s the newest thing. It’s called Bidenspeak. You link together at least three random, unconnected items. Say them forcefully. Then wander off the stage.
Hence the move to villainize.
algore should be banned, not the series of instructions and procedures that become computer code.
Man bear pig knows the unbiased algorithms will soon start to reflect actual viewpoints and facts. It takes a human touch to properly manipulate the narrative through censorship.
EC
Algore is actually right in what he says here — insofar as he goes in the linked clips — about the rabbit hole/echo chamber effect. The first question is whether he sees the echo chambers and insane nutball fringe sites on the left or is so deep in his own rabbit hole that he thinks problem is primarily on the right. The second question is what to do about it, and the devil is in the details.
When the internet was first deployed to the general public, it was on the fringes of an established information ecosystem that already had plenty of problems. The aspirational goal was that the internet would lead to a great democratization of information, break the stranglehold of the gatekeepers, and allow competing viewpoints to find an audience.
And sometimes the internet delivers. Google, for example, rose to ascendancy when the public came to perceive it as a neutral search engine that created an open public square. That was not terribly long ago, but it already seems an almost forgotten lost age. The internet broke the power of the legacy gatekeepers and promptly created the danger of even more powerful, more centralized gatekeepers hiding deep in the background. But what is the solution?
Free Speech is so over, says Al.
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