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Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others

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286 points saikatsg | 2 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ktosobcy ◴[05 Sep 25 12:29 UTC] No.45137736[source]▶
EU should to the same (FB & X).

In general anything that has "algorytmic content ordering" that pushes content triggering strong emotional reactions should be banned and burned to the ground.

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Karrot_Kream ◴[05 Sep 25 17:17 UTC] No.45141003[source]▶
> pushes content triggering strong emotional reactions should be banned

Aren't you describing your own comment? Aren't upvotes pushing that to the top? So isn't HN the thing that needs to be banned according to your comment?

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1. abdullahkhalids ◴[05 Sep 25 17:23 UTC] No.45141072[source]▶
No. Facebook algorithm produces different outputs for every user. HN's algorithm produces one output for all users.

They are qualitatively distinct. Facebooks' algorithm is demonstrably harmful. HN's not so much.

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2. Karrot_Kream ◴[05 Sep 25 17:24 UTC] No.45141092[source]▶
Do you have proof that demonstrates that FB's algorithm is more harmful than upvotes on HN or Reddit? Not that it's harmful compared to a world before FB, that it's more harmful than an upvote based algorithm.