Instagram starts rolling out AI-powered anti-bullying features
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- Anonymous
- vGj
- 09 Jul 2019
Anonymousse, 09 Jul 2019I worry this will be used by 'trolls', on the left and righ... moreLeft wing cause 0 fatalities in us right wing caused 50 fatalities bin USA, go on now milk shake throw is worse...OMG!!
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- Anonymousse
- rRU
- 09 Jul 2019
I worry this will be used by 'trolls', on the left and right, to silence opinions they don't like. Hopefully this won't just be a one-step 'done and gone' sort of deal.
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- Anonymous
- ptC
- 09 Jul 2019
Goodbye freedom of speech, hello censorship!
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- CompactPhones5ever
- 8uS
- 09 Jul 2019
I'm really not sure about this, I kinda have a problem with this on both levels:
A) From the bullying person's point of view: It's not like preventing someone from saying hurtful things will magically make them a nice person. Some people simply have that anger and disappointment in them and posting mean things to others on the internet is simply letting out steam. If they don't do this, it accumulates inside them until it bursts and they can do something actually hurtful. But it's been the western society behaviour for a while - "if the problem isn't in my own neighborhood then it might as well not exist at all". Same as EU's crusade to save the planet from pollution by constant regulations to european manufacturers - you don't make it disappear, you make it move to Asia where they don't give a f*ck about environment. The global climate change remains more or less the same.
B) From the bullied's person of view: obviously it differs case by case, but generally speaking, I believe it's better to give especially young people a taste of a real, mean world in small doses. If people spend most of their lives on social networks where everyone is being nice to each other (because all mean behaviour gets censored), it might be hard for them to adapt to real life work environment where people simply often are very mean to each other. And they always will be, unless we start brainwashing children like in Huxley's Brave New World. I know it's not reasonable to make any conclusions based on one case, but personally I grew up on the mid-2000's internet forums which were full of trolls and flamers with absolutely zero regulations, and they often said things which I - then as a young teenager - found very mean and I often felt hurt by things those people said to me. But in a longrun, it made me quite thick-skinned and I stopped being sensitive to criticism and insults, allowing me to act calmly and reasonably in stressful situations. It's a bit like exposing children to dirty environments to enable them to develop some natural immunity - if they're kept in squeaky clean houses their entire childhood, they often end up getting sick when they get in contact with unclean places.
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- Oflife
- mpR
- 09 Jul 2019
Creepy tech giants attempting to replace strict parents.
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- Anders
- LaT
- 09 Jul 2019
Denis Thomas, 09 Jul 2019Or they can grow up and deal with the fact that there will ... moreThe regressive left wants to prolong childhood indefinitely. Just look at "Trigglypuff". Those are the kind of people who vote for the democrats and "liberals"
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- DavidRegalJnr
- r3H
- 09 Jul 2019
Denis Thomas, 09 Jul 2019Or they can grow up and deal with the fact that there will ... moreI think you should know not everyone is strong enough to handle it..
- Denis Thomas
- 3Ag
- 09 Jul 2019
Or they can grow up and deal with the fact that there will be people in your life who will hurt you, look down on you, bully you etc. They are part of your journey into growing up as a person, part to become stronger.
Or you can just troll them instead. My speciality :)
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- M.G.
- s8h
- 09 Jul 2019
To protect a bunch of cry babies.