I think that it is interesting to say that human do not like to be duped by others because there are times where those that have duped us are the ones who garner more influence and popularity from duping people. For example, with lonelygirl15, even though people discovered that it was fictional, the channel continue to grow. Another more recent example would be the "Lashgate" tiktok drama where an influencer literally lied to their audience about their sponsorship, yet they are still thriving on tiktok. This goes to show that duping people might lead to more popularity.

I find it interesting how there are so much demand for free speech online. The reality is that social media needs community guidelines and content moderation to keep its content safe and legal for the company itself and its users. Having lax rules can lead to things like 8Chan losing a place to host its servers and Twitter losing advertisers.

I wonder if these platforms moderated what users could upload back then. And if so, what would that have looked like? I am sure that there would be some sort of community guidelines or rules to prevent people from uploading sensitive or illegal content.

I think this also has to do with how data are stored in the database because those fields are seems to be common when it comes to storing address information in databses. I wonder how we can design a database that also considers other countries.

In chapter 3, when we are defining a bot, it was said that bots are sometimes run by humans, so are they considering them as bots as well even if they are not run by computers? Even for the ones that are run by computers, what metric are they using to decide what are bots. Since more and more bots are getting better at mimicking human behaviors in order to not get banned, how can they tell the difference between bots and real users.

I think social media platforms allows bots because bots can be used in a good way. For example, reddit uses bots to moderate content. As we know, moderating content can negatively impact moderators' mental health. So by using a bot, it can help relief some of that impact.

I think it is the responsibility of the company and company leaders who are developing the technology to think through the ethical implications. If you are talking about a general tech worker who is just getting paid to do their job, I think they have little to no say in what should or shouldn't be done depending on their company culture. Workers having no say in what can be done is, in itself, scary but that is just the reality of working for a company.

I think there are some difference between consequentialism and utilitarianism and utilitarianism being a specific type of consequentialism. Consequentialism doesn't specifically say that greatest good means happiness for greatest amount of people, instead it just says that we need to produce good consequences.