The Social Dilemma
Nothing new in it for the HN crowd I suppose.<p>For me, privacy is the core issue, though &quot;free&quot; is part of the problem. A social network charging a dollar a year wouldn&#x27;t be great for investors but would essentially pay for itself. (As a Brit, I&#x27;d be more inclined to pay that dollar than the BBC license fee at ~170x the expense for all the &quot;soft power&quot; it has.).<p>With the monetary dial removed, filter bubbles are still a problem. I&#x27;m thinking it would be good if more algorithms could be used to counterweight a persons predilections. Show me stuff based on my interactions&#x2F;friends&#x2F;groups I&#x27;m in&#x2F;people like me&#x2F;opinions I hold&#x2F;mood I&#x27;m in, but counterweight it with things&#x2F;people that are potentially opposite or more neutral. Perhaps associate with groups of ideas for this cause, i.e. political belief, people at my place of work, people that visit the same places I do. It could be totally transparent, viewed, and even possibly reset.<p>I think the documentary was good for the general public to me made aware of how Facebook&#x2F;Google, pretty much all &quot;big tech&quot; is aggressively mining data, some more than others.