When the "Cure" is Worse Than the Dis-ease

Amy and Benjamin discuss a couple of different angles on the harms created by social media platforms, such as YouTube, which manipulate their users via algorithms ("angorithms"), then censor the byproducts ("hate speech," "misinformation") they don't like--or worse, of which government entities disapprove. References: https://dontletitgo.com/2023/03/03/phew-youtube-saved-you-by-censoring-my-super-dangerous-content/ https://dontletitgo.com/2011/09/14/attack-watch-as-case-study-of-how-force-stops-thinking/ https://open.substack.com/pub/historyisnow/p/angorithms-and-the-socio-media-path?r=4js7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/historyisnow/p/revenge-of-the-nerds?r=4js7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/dontletitgo/p/chatgpt-as-the-latest-challenge-for?r=4js7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://broadbandbreakfast.com/big-tech-speech-summit/ (use promo code FLASH)