How are people’s expectations different for a bot and a “normal” user?
Bots are programed. They are expected to have specified behavior as described. However, a real human could be more creatively, do what they want freely. It is the main difference between a bot and a real human. Bots could be faster than human, but not necessary. A well-designed bot sleeps so it doesn’t make too much spam.
Why do you think social media platforms allow bots to operate?
Bots could be helpful to today’s life. Automation is useful to use. For example, we use bots to block spam, archive out dated threads. Bots make the platform programable, which extends the possibility of the platform. With bots, platform may have more functionality than it designed. Platform get benefits from content on it and the user traffic. Bots help both improve the quality of content, and may also attract more user traffic. And so it benefits the platform. It is hard to blocking bots. Introducing more captcha could be a bad idea to stopping bots as it also harm experience of real people. And as we discussed before, attacker may still use more complex technology or even a real human (as discussed in 3.1) to bypass the restriction. So, disallowing all bots won’t help much if attackers may get benefits from their actions. But it also blocks friendly bots too.
Why do you think social media platforms allow bots to operate?
Bots could be helpful to today’s life. Automation is useful to use. For example, we use bots to block spam, archive out dated threads. Bots make the platform programable, which extends the possibility of the platform. With bots, platform may have more functionality than it designed. Platform get benefits from content on it and the user traffic. Bots help both improve the quality of content, and may also attract more user traffic. And so it benefits the platform. It is hard to blocking bots. Introducing more captcha could be a bad idea to stopping bots as it also harm experience of real people. And as we discussed before, attacker may still use more complex technology or even a real human (as discussed in 3.1) to bypass the restriction. So, disallowing all bots won’t help much if attackers may get benefits from their actions. But it also blocks friendly bots too.
“The internet isn’t real life.” This was used as a way to devalue time spent on social media sites, and to dismiss harms that occurred on them.
Not all content on social media is fake or harmful. There are also many feeds that shared by people about their experiences, feelings, opinions on social media platforms. Social media could be an important tool for communication, entertainment, learning and even working. As nowadays, social media also made great inspect on the real life. Similarly, biased or fakeness are not something only happened to social media. All media are more or less be biased and faking. As a tool, learning how to use it correctly is getting more and more important.
There are many more ethics frameworks that we haven’t mentioned here. You can look up some more here.
Yangism is a philosophical school founded by Yang Zhu which influenced later Confucianism. Yang Zhu believes that human actions should be based on self-interest, which can be considered an early form of Ethical Egoism. "If everyone does not harm a single hair, and if everyone does not benefit the world, the world will be well governed of itself." expresses Yang Zhu's view of ethics.