Posted January 12, 20214 yr Stop polluting the election thread with "the problem of social media" . Should it be regulated? Should it not be regulated? Does it just need a stern talking to? Articulate your points and arguments here.
January 12, 20214 yr Yes, should be monitored, regulated, and if terms of service are violated continually by users, if the site does not shut them down, shut it down.
January 12, 20214 yr social media would be more enjoyable if there were no political content whatsoever on there, imo. think of facebook, early on. it was a great way to catch up with old friends, classmates, etc & see what everyone is up to...share family photos, etc. somewhere along the way, it became a cesspool filled with ads & political garbage. a-holes ruin everything.
January 12, 20214 yr 19 minutes ago, jsdarkstar said: Fox News Sucks. That is all. We are supposed to argue in this thread. Please bring something that is not an indisputable fact so we can commence arguing.
January 12, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, Toastrel said: Conspiracy! I don't know how to use a computer, that must mean theyre coming for our guns, and then to kill us!
January 12, 20214 yr Media is INSANELY biased towards selling you product. The product varies. Learn what they are. Vote with your wallet after your brain does homework. This is hard work.
January 13, 20214 yr Similar technique used by the big three auto makers to take down Tucker's auto company.
January 13, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, lynched1 said: Similar technique used by the big three auto makers to take down Tucker's auto company. Really? Their cars helped people plot and plan sedition? Then all the suppliers dropped them like a hot potato?
January 13, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, Toastrel said: Really? Their cars helped people plot and plan sedition? Then all the suppliers dropped them like a hot potato? Their use of power to subvert their competition.
January 13, 20214 yr Just now, lynched1 said: Their use of power to subvert their competition. So not similar at all. Gotcha
January 13, 20214 yr Just now, Toastrel said: So not similar at all. Gotcha If you say so it must be true.
January 13, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, lynched1 said: Their use of power to subvert their competition. I know, Amazon was intensely competitive with Parler. Salient point.
January 13, 20214 yr KKK.com is using HARRISONARKANSASWEBSITES.COM My guess is Amazon wouldn't take them.
January 13, 20214 yr 8 hours ago, mr_hunt said: somewhere along the way, it became a cesspool filled with ads & political garbage. a-holes ruin everything. That moment "along the way" was going public. Capitalism ruins everything
January 13, 20214 yr Since there is a social media thread and this supports my claim that John Matze is a two bit programmer with absolutely no idea on what he is doing. Funny part is that they published the tool that was used to scrape the site. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/parlers-amateur-coding-could-come-back-to-haunt-capitol-hill-rioters/ Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters Some 80 terabytes of posts, many already deleted, preserved for posterity. DAN GOODIN - 1/12/2021, 8:48 AM By now, you may have heard of the hacker who says she scraped 99 percent of posts from Parler, the Twitter-wannabe site used by Trump supporters to help organize last Wednesday’s violent insurrection on Capitol Hill. What you may not know yet is the abysmal coding and security that made the scraping so easy. To recap, the scraping was pulled off by a hacker who goes by the handle donk_enby. She originally set out to archive content posted to Parler last Wednesday in hopes of preserving self-incriminating material before account holders came to their senses and deleted it. By Sunday, donk_enby said she had collected roughly 80 terabytes of posts, including more than 1 million videos, many of which contained the GPS metadata identifying the exact locations of where the videos were shot. "For the journalists DMing me to ask, in non-technical terms, I'd describe the current Parler archival situation as ‘a bunch of people running into a burning building trying to grab as many things as we can,’” donk_enby wrote on Twitter on Sunday. "Things will be available in a more accessible form later.” The reason for urgency: Amazon, Apple, and Google all informed Parler that its lack of content moderation violated their terms of service. The archivists wanted to obtain the posts while the site remained online. But as it turned out, donk_enby was able to retrieve posts even after they had been deleted. Coding mess A key reason for her success: Parler’s site was a mess. Its public API used no authentication. When users deleted their posts, the site failed to remove the content and instead only added a delete flag to it. Oh, and each post carried a numerical ID that was incremented from the ID of the most recently published one. The rookie code made it easy to automate the scraping, as this script used by donk_enby’s archival team demonstrates. As a result, massive numbers of posts that discussed the insurrection before, during, and after it was carried out will be preserved indefinitely so that they’re available to researchers, journalists, prosecutors, and others. Another amateur mistake was Parler’s failure to scrub geolocations from images and videos posted online. Sites like Twitter and Google routinely remove such metadata from content posted by their users. The video files hosted on Parler, by contrast, were "raw,” meaning they still contained this information. Parler’s moderation policies—even more lax than those of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube—already made the site popular with far-right users looking for a forum to discuss debunked conspiracy theories. With Twitter permanently banning Trump, the president’s supporters embraced the site even more enthusiastically. Prosecutors are already pursuing more than 150 suspects in Wednesday’s riot. The preservation of some 80TB of Parler posts, including more than 1 million raw video files, may result in more people being charged.
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