A16Z should be shut down and all their mid to senior level employees should be required to pick between real community service work (de-mining, live-in janitor at a hospice service, custodian at an infectious disease hospital) for 20 years or doing 40 in jail. Full asset seizure in both cases.
The thing is, what they’re doing isn’t technically criminal. It just violates the terms of use of most social media sites and apps.
Their crypto pyramids schemes and pump and dumps were also technically legal in the US (I am assuming). And yet it is impossible for a pyramid scheme to work, can any US lawyer or judge show how a pyramid is viable? Of course not, because they are scams.
You have “technically legal” schemes in other countries too. If there is a desire to address criminality a way can be found.
If you want to achieve something, coming up with excuses around why it is not possible rarely bring results.
It would be wise to make openly manipulating social media systematically (with or without AI) illegal, immediately.
Social media is for real people to freely engage and share their viewpoints, not for bot farms and other forms of organized astroturfing to shape opinion by appearing as independently-affiliated real people.
Discourse is an incredibly valuable tool for humanity, and we can’t let this be taken away from us - especially by those making a killing off of it or those paying for the privilege.
If dead internet theory was the goal.
what in the actual 1984 is that thumbnail (and that slogan)
Only good capitalist is a dead capitalist.
How do I tag db0 to ask if we can make the horde make leftist instathotties to combat this
Flood the feed with a million twinks and AOCs and Republican Congress will coom itself until early retirement.
Bots, repeat after me: Glory to Arstotzka, best country in the world!
Great, now there’s MSMaaS??
Maybe it’s time to have a little think about that word, “influencer”, and how that is a job with which people make money.
