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#274 — The Future of American Democracy
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Is Twitter a Publisher or a Phone Company?
The problem with twitter and facebook is that it's actually neither a publisher nor the phone company. The thing that, in my view, needs to be regulated is the algorithm. It doesn't just give you the right to speech. It publicizes your speech according to a set of rules that are semi secret. What spreads on facebook? What spreads the most quickly? Its facebook has defined this as things that keep people on facebook. That's actually face book's goal, is to keep you on the platform as long as possible. So they really need to focus not on what's taken down and everybody else being able to say whatever they want but on how fast these things spread. We could have
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