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The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X::The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

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[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

I think you missed the part where the person you are replying to is talking about the ethics of the platform itself, not the ethical viewpoint of the users using the platform nor the personal views of the developers.

[-] seitanic -5 points 1 year ago

Platforms don't have ethics. They're software, not people.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Platforms have the ethics of the people administrating them

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

And designing them. Anything coded has the biases of the people who made them baked in.

[-] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Software is shipped with a license. There are licenses that are more or less ethical.

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