Now that this community has mods, I think we should come to something approaching a consensus on whether there should be a rule against posting “nice” comics from transphobic and other kinds of bigoted artists. People like Stonetoss and Jago who have a lot of innocent-looking relatable comics, but also post the most mean, bigoted propaganda.
And I’d like to present a third option besides yes and no: one might post comics from bigoted artists after removing the artist credit, if the mods think that’s a good compromise.
This describes how society in general has handled all vices, since long before the Internet.
Sadly accurate, but it has been wilful ignorance, now it is enforced by what the machines think we want to see.
I think it is worse now, than before, it was a lot easier to pick up that “other” newspaper than it is to break out of your algorithm.
The Machines aren’t operating of their own accord. They’re being told what to show, to who, and when. Someone sets those rules for the algorithm and updates them periodically for profit.
As I said in my longer comment, it’s not machines doing objective and unbiased calculations, it’s political. A billionaire constructed echo chamber we all now live in. The aim is sometimes to profit and keep us addicted, other times it’s to promote candidates who share Billionaire’s profit motive. But it’s never an objective democratic analysis.
We have to always be mindful of who is pulling the levers and why, and that’s the truth of it.
True, when they had humans working for them it wasn’t so bad, there was variance in how they responded to the company position and they could think rather than follow a checklist.