Cosby thought unconscious woman....

[Joe]

Saves a lot of time. Just get 12 random users and bingo.

Or even simpler, just count likes.

[Scot Dutchy]

Set a deadline first.

[Joe]

Sounds like an episode of The Orville, set on a world where everyone had to wear a badge with up and down vote buttons.

If you did something that crossed some threshold of downvotes, you got put on televised trial and everyone who wanted to voted over a set period of time. If you got a negative 10 million votes, you were brain-wiped, otherwise you went free.

[laklak]

Just lynch him.

[Tero]

Castration might work.

[pErvinalia]

Sounds like an episode of The Orville, set on a world where everyone had to wear a badge with up and down vote buttons.

If you did something that crossed some threshold of downvotes, you got put on televised trial and everyone who wanted to voted over a set period of time. If you got a negative 10 million votes, you were brain-wiped, otherwise you went free.

I think you just described China's new Social Credit scheme..

[Joe]

Sounds like an episode of The Orville, set on a world where everyone had to wear a badge with up and down vote buttons.

If you did something that crossed some threshold of downvotes, you got put on televised trial and everyone who wanted to voted over a set period of time. If you got a negative 10 million votes, you were brain-wiped, otherwise you went free.

I think you just described China's new Social Credit scheme..

Damn, you're right. Truth really is stranger than fiction.

[Hermit]

Sounds like an episode of The Orville, set on a world where everyone had to wear a badge with up and down vote buttons.

If you did something that crossed some threshold of downvotes, you got put on televised trial and everyone who wanted to voted over a set period of time. If you got a negative 10 million votes, you were brain-wiped, otherwise you went free.

I think you just described China's new Social Credit scheme..

Except in China the fate of the person being scrutinised will not be decided by popular vote.

Either way, fun times ahead.

[pErvinalia]

I was being sarcastic. But China's scheme is frightening enough as is.

[Scot Dutchy]

That Black Mirror episode is the way Facebook would love to have it.

[Hermit]

That Black Mirror episode is the way Facebook would love to have it.

Zuckerberg is not interested in social control as such. He is interested in making money out of demographic statistics. Each Facebook account holder provides it. Zuckerberg then sells the information on to whoever wants to use it for whatever purpose they choose. Knowing the identity of each individual is not necessary. The shenanigans perpetrated by Cambridge Analytica make it perfectly obvious that knowing a facebook account holder by name, address or any other uniquely identifiable factor is not a prerequisite for achieving a desired objective.

[JimC]

But advertisers want to nail down unique demographic facts about every on-line persona they can get. I agree that they don't really need a true name, but a physical address (perhaps even if only suburb etc.) gives important clues for targeted advertising.

[Svartalf]

That Black Mirror episode is the way Facebook would love to have it.

Zuckerberg is not interested in social control as such. He is interested in making money out of demographic statistics. Each Facebook account holder provides it. Zuckerberg then sells the information on to whoever wants to use it for whatever purpose they choose. Knowing the identity of each individual is not necessary. The shenanigans perpetrated by Cambridge Analytica make it perfectly obvious that knowing a facebook account holder by name, address or any other uniquely identifiable factor is not a prerequisite for achieving a desired objective.

I don't know HOW zuckezrberg is interested in social control, but the fact that FB has guidlines about what kinds of postes and pictures are acceptable or not, means that it IS exerting social control.

[pErvinalia]

Yeah, it's a pretty conservative platform. Woe betide anyone who posts a picture of a mother breast feeding..

[Hermit]

That Black Mirror episode is the way Facebook would love to have it.

Zuckerberg is not interested in social control as such. He is interested in making money out of demographic statistics. Each Facebook account holder provides it. Zuckerberg then sells the information on to whoever wants to use it for whatever purpose they choose. Knowing the identity of each individual is not necessary. The shenanigans perpetrated by Cambridge Analytica make it perfectly obvious that knowing a facebook account holder by name, address or any other uniquely identifiable factor is not a prerequisite for achieving a desired objective.

I don't know HOW zuckezrberg is interested in social control, but the fact that FB has guidlines about what kinds of postes and pictures are acceptable or not, means that it IS exerting social control.

Yes, of course keeping the content milque toast is social control, but it is not social control for its own sake. Zuckerberg figures that the more main-stream the format is, the more people keep Facebook accounts, and the more Facebook accounts there are, the more data he has to sell.

It's all about Facebook's profit. My bet is that if Zuckerberg saw more profit in catering to the fascists he'd permit his place being flooded with Stormfront style material, and if he saw more money in porn, it would be a showcase for tits, cunts and cocks.