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problem i have with this is that while it is true that Facebook is optimizing for something harmful with their business model, these testimonies and congressional hearings are not aimed at solving the problem. they are aimed at scoring political points and huffing and puffing.

so it is a situation where an organization with shitty incentives that doesn't have good faith alignment with society at large is regulated by an organization with shitty incentives that doesn't have good faith alignment with society at large.

the whole process is completely illegitimate and basically a TV show. i don't have a solution for this, i just know that this is not it.

>>sergef+(OP)
I view that the core issue is that democracy and many modern institutions as they exist today are hopelessly ill-equipped to deal with the reality where billions of people are connected. We live in a world of interconnected differences. Existing social and cultural norms basically compel us to synchronize everyone in the network to the same instance of truth, and this simply doesn't work anymore.

We are already seeing huge increases in support for things like systems thinking, ecological worldview, decentralization, holism, etc. The future is pluralistic and that's okay.