Interesting Links for 27-04-2021

[andrewducker]

The owners and the owned - why the Christian Right supported Trump

(tags:religion USA politics viaDanielDWilliam )

Erdogan threatens to recognise killings of Native Americans as genocide in response to Armenia resolution (I see no bad here)

(tags:genocide Armenia Turkey USA )

Why It took Facebook two months to realize "Stop the Steal" might turn violent

(tags:Facebook conspiracy politics violence )

Chaos miniature painting: advanced version

(tags:warhammer painting chaos )

Apple AirTag has built-in anti-stalking tech

(tags:apple stalking Technology )

Comments

[mountainkiss]

?

[danieldwilliam]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

[mountainkiss]

Ah gotcha.

[danieldwilliam]

I suspect that in this specific case there is an element of "surely white people wouldn't actually try to violently overthrow the government" along with a general incredulity about the risks of politcal violence in long-term stable democracies.

And I wonder if Facebook really understand the potentcy of their platform enough to be on guard for it's risk in a coup.

[mountainkiss]

I have tended to notice in Zuckerberg’s testimony a belief in human nature that fails to take into account inter alia the madness of crowds.

[danieldwilliam]

Yeah, a tendency when prodded about what would happen if people mis-used his platform to think that people obviously wouldn't and so no further thought is required.

Not sure if that's a philosophical or ideological blind spot, or a lack of appreciation that people have other goals that are differently sized and shaped and defined from his own.

He's inviting some potentially existential regulation from some states I think.

[mountainkiss]

For me the example that always stays in my head is his apparent genuine incomprehension that there are people who might have good reasons for using false identities or experience genuine threat if their accounts are found by others.

[danieldwilliam]

Absolutely. I don't think he exhibits much empathy, for good or for ill.

[dewline]

I've noticed that disconnect.

Others want his finances investigated. Because suspicion of Russian oligarchs' money being tied into Facebook.

[danieldwilliam]

Tied in, in that they are investing illegal money in Facebook, or tied in, in that they are using money to influence FB policies in a way that facilitates some useful propaganda?

[dewline]

All of that, apparently.