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Online Stimulation of Hatred, a solution.

A Chara,

The horrific act of setting fire to a stairwell in an IPAS Center was likely stimulated. The various violent ‘protests’ outside IPAS centres likewise.

IPAS Center in Drogheda, Ireland. Front door kicked in, fire set in main stairwell, with women, children living upstairs.

Video of man setting fire to the stairwell: hlsv4_master.m3u8

News report on this incident on Ireland AM

This kind of action is not something ordinary people who are angry about something would come up with, let alone carry out.

Studying a person to understand their insecurities, fears, rages, biases and misunderstandings in order to create and deliver material designed to exacerbate their emotional reactivity, carried out over periods of time to eventually drive behavioural change that can be exploited for political purpose is understood as a ‘social media marketing’ phenomenon, that operates at scale.

This activity is fundamentally psychological abuse.

There are solid grounds for defining it as an inherently criminal action, and defining legislation to criminalise it.

If such legislation was in place, platforms would no longer be able to generate revenue streams from such marketing campaigns.

Perhaps that would help us in dealing with online hatred stimulation.

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Media communications that exploit cognitive biases - psychological abuse

Winding people up as a business model.

Media communications that exploit cognitive biases, insecurities, prejudices, fears, cultural conditioning, and misunderstandings—studying these conditions and delivering tailored content to exacerbate them—are intentionally designed to drive behavioural change.

image source: New York Times under Fair Use

This includes, of course, social media platforms, which are explicitly designed as advertising delivery systems, as a business model.

This business model includes building in processes that extract more online time from users, that encourage addictive behaviours, that exacerbate emotional reactivity, incite consumer behaviour to maximise advertising spend to sales efficiency and unfortunately this provides malign actors access to vulnerable individuals, at scale.

Such tactics are used to incite hatred, to promote bigotry, to spread misinformation and disinformation, in order to manipulate voting behaviors through emotional and irrational drivers, and increase sales. These practices are economically and politically exploitative.

This activity constitutes psychological abuse.

If legislation were introduced to identify, define, and criminalize such actions as intentional psychological abuse, media providers would be unable to permit this behavior on their platforms as a revenue stream.

In regards Domestic Abuse legislation the precedent of identifying psychologically abusive speech as a criminal offence has already been set.

We need the same logic to apply to all advertising delivery operations on social media.

Their AI algorithms would then be legislated to be designed accordingly.

None of what is proposed here offends the intent and purpose of Free Speech - which is to protect the voices of those who are being harmed by Government Policy or the actions of other powerful institutions, when they bring their complaint and witness testimony to the public domain, from oppression, intimidation and censorship.

This would not inhibit free speech. Instead, it would protect vulnerable individuals from predatory actors.. it bears repeating, emphasising, underlining.

What is Free Speech?

Free speech, from the citizen's perspective, entails the responsibility to speak truthfully and publicly. It also requires that the State and other powerful institutions refrain from using their power to harass honest critics, witnesses, whistleblowers, and truth-tellers.

The State and all other institutions must listen to citizens when they present testimony and evidence of avoidable harms being caused and acknowledge those testimonies, admit the evidence, and then take corrective action, as the core duty of healthy governance is to avoid avoidable harms.

The power imbalance between the State, corporations, and the individual is immense.

Legislation is necessary to prevent bad actors from exploiting this disparity.

This is a matter of public, political, cultural and social health and safety