04-05-2018, 08:13 AM
(04-04-2018, 08:18 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: First of all, I can't believe this hasn't already been a huge topic of discussion around here, today.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/father-of-youtube-shooter-says-he-warned-about-daughter/ar-AAvqwQM?OCID=ansmsnnews11
My own thoughts? Perhaps giving every idiot a platform on which to make big money, for essentially doing nothing productive, wasn't such a great idea? Here you have a case of an individual who found an easy way to make money, just keep generating the views. However, when her content starting going over the top, moderation had to be enforced, thus cutting off her relatively cheap and easy revenue stream.
The result cannot be what any of the tech folks could have ever envisioned. I think some very serious oversight and regulations are on the very near horizons for the social media companies.
Trying to tie the "giving every idiot a platform" to the shooting is mixing in personal opinions on social media into the tragic events and it really isn't related. This feels like you using a tragedy to take the the platform "get off my lawn" to "easy money" from doing something that in your opinion adds "Little benefit to the success of society"". This is the equivalent of getting fired and shooting up her employer, she got "fired" by YouTube and shot up the place that fired her. We have seen this play out for decades, it is just the modern version of a very old pastime. It is literally the whole reason people tend to get fired on Fridays.
