Ban: Platforms can permanently ban users and also try to ban users coming from certain internet connections
It also reminds me of the shadow ban, which is not readily apparent to the user. The action may be taken by an individual or an algorithm. A shadow-banned content would be visible to the sender, but not to other users.
Much of the internet has developed a culture of copying without necessarily giving attribution to where it came from. Often, unlike with Elon Musk, this copying also involves modifying the content, recontextualizing the content to give it new meaning, or combining it with other content.
Rick Roll's Never Gonna Give You Up should be considered one of the earliest and still popular memes on the internet. And last year, he recreated (or should we say remastered) the music video with the same spot, the same gesture, and the same everything for an ads promotion. I think it is also an example of Remixing memes even though he played by himself.
For social media content, replication means that the content (or a copy or modified version) gets seen by more people. Additionally, when a modified version gets distributed, future replications of that version will include the modification (a.k.a., inheritance).
I have seen memes like everyone replies the same misspelled message in the group chat because the first person makes a typo and everyone else just copies and pastes what he says until someone finally finds it and posts that online. I think it is an interesting example of replication memes.
Most social media platforms provide an official way to connect a bot to their platform (called an Application Programming Interface, or API). This lets the social media platform track these registered bots and provide certain capabilities and limits to the bots (like a rate limit on how often the bot can post).
Is that talking about the "claiming you are not a robot" part every time I try to log in to my account? Like "choosing the pictures below related to the traffic lights" or sending a verification code to your phone. Now I think it is a necessary part to protect the already fragile internet environment.
Note that sometimes people use “bots” to mean inauthentically run accounts, such as those run by actual humans, but are paid to post things like advertisements or political content. We will not consider those to be bots, since they aren’t run by a computer. Though we might consider these to be run by “human computers” who are following the instructions given to them, such as in a click farm:
I have received ads about recruiting me to do the so-called "part-time job" of posting designated reviews on specific apps or accounts. I didn't notice I was almost involved in this human-labor bots activity. Although it is legal in most cases, it is still very annoying when we browse the internet and find such bots activities.
Rejects Confucian focus on ceremonies/rituals. Prefers spontaneity and play. Like how water (soft and yielding), can, over time, cut through rock.
Taoism is not the opposite side of Confucianism (not like the dark side of the Force). Rather, it provides another possibility for interpreting similar things. They both touch on how we interact with others (tea-drinking rituals) as well as how we reflect on ourselves (the water-cutting-rock metaphor is a way of perseverance as a virtue)
“All media are social. All society is mediated.”
Media is intended to be social and relate to society, which means there is no such called isolated media. Even the non-human involved media, such as ants use body language to communicate things, which is also conducted for social purposes.
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