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What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal (www.newscientist.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Generally, the media has focused on the (mainly) men whose names and desires were taken from the company’s subscriber database and shared with the world. [...] Ashley Madison was never really about that. Avid Life Media, its parent company, wasn’t in the business of sex, it was in the business of bots. Its site became a prototype for what social media platforms such as Facebook are becoming: places so packed with AI-generated nonsense that they feel like spam cages, or information prisons where the only messages that get through are auto-generated ads.

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[–] Broken@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

use Netiquette

Wow, I haven't heard that in long time.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 points 5 months ago

I re-read it and loved the: "Always fasten your seatbelt on the Information Highway", but I'm fairly certain that Malinda McColl wrote it (as part of the mini FAQ on which I expanded with her blessing).