My key takeaway from this great new @NaomiNixWrites @washingtonpost piece is that tech companies have done far too little protect democracy. This is particularly galling in a post-insurrection world. The problems are systemic. #FixTheFeed washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
What if tech companies spent way less money on lobbying and managing civil and human rights leaders and spent that all on ending the way their algorithms amplify white supremacists, authoritarians and their mouthpieces?
What if they deeply invested in safety across languages and geographies? And enforced their rules against the powerful to the same extent they enforce against the oppressed?
Just sayin. It doesn’t have to be this way. The people who run these companies make choices. Just like construction projects used to budget for a certain number of deaths, tech companies are budgeting for a certain amount of harm to humankind.
That’s why we have OSHA. Because people shouldn’t have to die to build a bridge. And people and democracy shouldn’t have to die to facilitate online communications.
It’s beyond time to regulate. It’s beyond time for tech companies to #FixTheFeed and #ChangeTheTerms.
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