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by raydev 595 days ago
You haven't made a point that I can see! I'm actually being genuine here, I don't know where this went off the rails for you exactly, but I would like my questions to be answered.

I'll just copypaste what I said in another thread to be as direct as possible:

I am being told that it's a "concern" but without an explanation. What are the material, concrete harms that can come from China directing the content algo?

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> You haven't made a point that I can see!

I made a pretty simple and straightforward analogy, which you didn't get. Maybe you don't get the geopolitical relevance of media control, but I'd really hope you'd understand bank account control. You = the US polity, Me = China, Bank account = something an adversary could harm you by controlling.

> I'm actually being genuine here...but I would like my questions to be answered....

> I am being told that it's a "concern" but without an explanation. What are the material, concrete harms that can come from China directing the content algo?

If you're being truthful, I think you might be at the point where you have to do some basic reading first, because you seem to need more hand-holding and explanation than it's reasonable to expect. You may also have some conceptual deficits that are so basic they come off as feigned.

> I think you might be at the point where you have to do some basic reading first

You are making the claim, you should be able to back the claim up. You're actually writing very many words to avoid a direct explanation, which is even more confusing.

Large-scale, targeted psychological manipulations of the crowd into liking tyranny, hating democracy and/or each other and so on?