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  1. Nov 2024
    1. We can also consider events in the #MeToo movement as at least in part public shaming of sexual harassers (but also of course solidarity and organizing of victims of sexual harassment, and pushes for larger political, organizational, and social changes).

      When legal action is taken in the public eye I feel as though it ruins the sentiment of the movement as women don't always get justice even if they have support from the public. For instance in The Depp/ Heard case she wasn't taken seriously or supported by many due to the case being televised.

    2. The term “cancel culture” can be used for public shaming and criticism, but is used in a variety of ways, and it doesn’t refer to just one thing.

      I feel as though the term "cancel culture" is a trigger word to many people and for this reason doesn't always get taken for the right reason. People using another term might get better perception.

    1. where the harassers feel their actions are justified.

      This is something that happens frequently in political posts from both sides as people think their opinion politically is correct and other are wrong. This goes wrong when people personally attack politicians and or their families for unrelated things to politics.

    1. Well, individuals can block or mute harassers, but the harassers may be a large group, or they might make new accounts.

      If social media companies come out against people causing bigotry and or harassment on their own website would they help further prevent it or would it only intensify. I think this goes hand in hand with trolling as it could become a form of trolling if people intensified their harassment after efforts to stop it just like in history.

    1. They quickly settled on a missing man (Sunil Tripathi) as the culprit (it turned out had died by suicide and was in no way related to the case), and flooded the Facebook page set up to search for Sunil Tripathi, causing his family unnecessary pain and difficulty.

      This to me is crazy and it leaves me with the question of whether the government would support non professionals helping find such a wanted person. Would this be an example of taking someones job from them?

    2. When social media users work together, we can consider what problem they are solving.

      This reminds me of when social media users banded together to find the original source of a mystery 80s song that circulate the internet for years and finally found it. I think that type of crowdsourcing is really cool and satisfying.

    1. What dangers are posed with languages that have limited or no content moderation?

      This can become unfair based off of what language the user is speaking in. This can make it so some languages can leave comments that other languages can't and can start biases against certain languages or people and even result in bigotry due to the representation of a language without moderation.

    1. Famously, Confucian thinkers prized moderation as a sound principle for living, or as a virtue

      Is there a way that we can avoid moderation becoming biased? How do "mods" decide what is okay or not when it comes to free speech and opinions?

    1. Additionally, these attempts at detecting mental health can be part of violating privacy

      This seems to be a slippery slope when it comes to deciding when someone is in danger or when someone is not. There should be real people that check on these things if there aren't already in order to prevent misunderstandings.

    2. For example, Facebook has a suicide detection algorithm, where they try to intervene if they think a user is suicidal

      I think that it is amazing that meta has this feature but also a little hypocritical due to some of the posts that they allow. They should be able to take down memes about suicide too as joking about it can be just as harmful.

    1. While neither Amy in New York nor Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis likely wanted those videos to go viral, the posting of those videos brought consequences to both Amy Cooper and Derek Chauvin for their racist actions which they probably wouldn’t have faced if not for the viral videos.

      I find this type of vitality to be very important as it not only brings attention to social issues but also holds people accountable for their actions. Sometimes these videos can even cause social movements and protests making one wonder what would have happened if no one was recording these incidents.

    2. Similar to the previous example, social media content can go viral for being perceived as “embarrassing.” For example, in 2002, a 15-year-old kid made a video of himself swinging a pretend lightsaber, that went viral and was mocked:

      This is the type of virality I get most often in my instagram. While sometimes I find it funny, most of the time it feels wrong because usually the original post had serious intent and then gets mocked for something the original user enjoys or a hobby. It goes hand in hand with trolling.

  2. Oct 2024
    1. parody reviews

      I have seen this being done on yelp by people who really disliked a restaurant they went to. They will post photos of the food purposefully shading it in a bad light and then write a sarcastic review giving the restaurant 5 stars. While it isn't nice of them to be ingenuine I think it isn't completely harmful as the restaurant still gets 5 stars from them and benefits from that.

    1. with the goal of causing disruption or provoking an emotional reaction.

      Personally I have found that one of the most common kinds of trolling found is when people comment something sarcastically or ingenuine on a post where someone was hoping to be taken seriously. I find this form of trolling to me very discouraging and harmful.

    1. So read through the Facebook name policy above

      I think that its funny when social media sites put in so much effort to enforcing policies against using emojis and non offensive symbols but struggle to remove hate crimes or cyberbullying even when it is reported.

    1. But, even though our focus is on internet-based social media platforms, since all media are social and all society is mediated, we will find that much of what we observe is also common throughout the rest of human culture.

      I think that calling internet based platforms social media is funny and the opposite of what it is. Although you interact online using it and see others lives I feel the physical media off the internet like art is more social as you are face to face.

    1. only follow rules that you are ok with everyone else following.

      I think that this can seem like the moral thing to do but it can also depend on ones positionally in life. For instance there are many things that less fortunate or less wealthy people should be able to have special access to that shouldn't apply to the more fortunate. What I am saying is this doesn't feel like it would always have an equitable outcome.