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| DATE | 2016-11-08 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] Dead trees and Dead Internet
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The US is heading to the voting booths on Tuesday and Hollywood actor
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is thousands of miles away from home, sitting down
with Business Insider in a meeting room at European technology
conference Web Summit in Lisbon.
The actor, who plays Edward Snowden in the recent Oliver Stone biopic,
tells us he feels "paralyzed" to publicly make a prediction as to which
way the vote will go. But he is prepared to talk about the frenetic
discussion on social media around the election. While he admits
scrolling through Twitter to catch up on what's happening can be
"cathartic," for the most part, he finds it deflating.
Gordon-Levitt said: "Just reading the internet — Twitter, Facebook,
YouTube — and just reading the way people talk to each other on both
sides — left wing, right wing — it is so discouraging because it's just
useless. It's all this energy being put into these comment threads and
nothing good comes out of them. Nothing. Nothing! People don't learn
anything, they don't make anything, and I find that very discouraging."
He continued: "The way these social media platforms are built, it is not
designed for discourse, it's not designed for critical thinking, it's
not designed for rational discussion, it's not designed for anything
productive like that. It's designed to make you scroll through, and
scroll through, and scroll through so you can see more ads."
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The death of the internet is upon us
http://www.businessinsider.com/joseph-gordon-levitt-snowden-hit-record-election-social-media-assange-2016-11
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