Facebook Becomes the Mormon Tabernacle in Purifying the Web - Science

Facebook, whose California campus is seen here, is making changes designed to prevent users from linking to "low quality" websites

Welcome to my disease.  Do you like it?


The ritual purification we're seeing with Facebook comes almost verbatim from "Brave New World" insofar as it's become the electronic soma since it mustn't disturb, jangle, nor irritate the Eloi who live within.

Ed:  how many sci fi novels will you mix into the same narrative?

As many as necessary.  Ha

Ref:  "The Time Machine"


Facebook said Wednesday it was making changes designed to keep its users from linking to "low-quality" websites, part of an effort to fight spam and misinformation.

The world's biggest social network said it is updating its ranking algorithm with the help of artificial intelligence so users would see fewer posts "that link to these low-quality web page experiences."

"With this update, we reviewed hundreds of thousands of web pages linked to/from Facebook to identify those that contain little substantive content and have a large number of disruptive, shocking or malicious ads," a Facebook blog post said.

Phys.org:  Facebook takes aim at 'low quality' websites

There's the prescription.  Soma for dealing with disruption, shock, or falsity.  That ignores altogether the fact the most successful propaganda works by omission rather than overt deception and their sophomoric filters will never detect that.


In reality that means people like Sartre or Robespierre, for that matter, would never get through their net ... but what is your boggle, fellow citizen.  Be calm.

Ref:  "Demolition Man"

Note;  yah, it had Sylvester Stallone who was actually kind of cool but it also featured Sandra Bullock who was hilarious.


Since you're regulars and not ass monkeys, the Rockhouse is assuming you get it with that illusory state of benign tranquility and Facebook is auguring a major black hole in society.


Here's an ass monkey (Mandrill):

Tip:  don't piss him off since here's a view from the other direction.

Did you say you have a problem since it sounds like you have a problem

That image is not modified.  Do NOT piss him off.


Ed:  oh, God, that was so shocking!

Yah, right.  There's only one answer:  ban it.

Peace