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@carolecadwalla @CNN @donie @FBoversight Quick question peeps.

If you looked out of your window every day and repeatedly caught a group of companies cataloguing all of the contents of your waste bin, would you be outraged? If so then why?

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@carolecadwalla @CNN @donie @FBoversight It is, perhaps, difficult to distinguish between 'Benji the Binman', exercising his skills in 'Binology' to questionably glean information then selling access to it to the News of The World, and any web based business that takes advantage of us not padlocking lock our bins.

@carolecadwalla @CNN @donie @FBoversight Social media interactions might be largely garbage, so who cares. Right?

My garbage contents today

1 x Pepperoni Pizza Box
6 x Used Kleenex
1 x Empty box paracetamol
3 x Used teabags
1 x Old guardian newspaper
1 x Empty shampoo bottle
1 x Empty air freshener aerosol

@carolecadwalla @CNN @donie @FBoversight How many lines of my garbage bin contents did you read? Did you judge me on my bin contents? Did you judge me because I shared my bin contents? Did you ask yourself why I would share my bin contents? Did sharing my bin contents prove useful to you in any way?

@carolecadwalla @CNN @donie @FBoversight Possibly these questions have made you feel a little awkward? Perhaps voyeuristic? If so then I would understand, I am human and I have empathy too.

The social media algorithms that harvest our data operate without empathy. Thereby, imo, they cannot be classed as social at all.

@carolecadwalla @CNN @donie @FBoversight But if the 'social media' companies more accurately branded themselves as 'data harvesting' companies then users might engage on the platforms differently. Perhaps cautiously.

My bin contents were a lie. Completely fabricated. But my data will not be deleted because it was a lie

@carolecadwalla @CNN @donie @FBoversight The social media algorithms will store it just the same because they cannot discern between what is truth and what is a lie.

And they will happily pass the tweet on to you. If you like it then they know, if you block it they will know and every RT gives it kudos.

@carolecadwalla @CNN @donie @FBoversight Social media algorithms are incapable of human empathy. The algorithm doesn't care if you are lied to, whether you should believe lies or not, or even the real life consequences of those lies. Its one purpose it to get to know you better so that you can be manipulated.

@carolecadwalla @CNN @donie @FBoversight Why is it you who has to report or block tweets that you think go against morality?

Simple. Because the algorithm has no workable concept of morality beyond checking against a list of offensive key words or phrases. It relies upon you.

@carolecadwalla @CNN @donie @FBoversight I do not try to portray these algorithms as intentionally socially destructive in their undertaking. Quite the opposite in fact, the AI's intention is to encourage us all to be socially constructive.

But it does so for profit and without empathy.

@carolecadwalla @CNN @donie @FBoversight As the few in this world have mined the earth to fuel their wealth and power without foresight (or care?) as to what negative future consequences there could be for the masses beyond instant gain. So it is with social media.

But now it is US being mined, without empathy.

@carolecadwalla @CNN @donie @FBoversight Oh... and one more thing...

It is not only contents of your garbage bin being mined/catalogued... they have actually walked through your unlocked front door and catalogued your entire life. For some of the younger ones, since the first photo your mum and dad put up of you on FB.

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