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Haidt: Mandatory diversity training does not work and makes things worse
“Mandatory diversity training you know, all these things we did in response to protesters that don't work or that make things worse.”
Haidt: Tech platforms cannot stop foreign disinformation without intelligence agency coordination
“Yes, of course they took some easy steps, but there is no way they can get a handle on this. This has to be, and I think they call it for this. This has to be a sort of a government-wide partnership between Coordinated between the CIA, the FBI, NSA, Facebook, …”
Haidt: Condition Section 230 liability protection on basic platform responsibilities
“I would like us to consider that the federal government mandate That if you want the benefit of level of, you want the benefit of section two 30 protection and this incredible freedom from lawsuits that only you and the gun lobby have because of lobbying, you …”
Haidt: Progressive activists are mostly young, white, and rely on intimidation
“The group furthest left, the progressive activists, that's the second whitest of all the groups. It's actually very interesting. This is mostly young white people who have a kind of politics in which, again, they don't learn to make arguments. They don't persu…”
Haidt: Performative social platforms destroy youth mental health and damage democracy
“We're talking about a small number of platforms where people do the labor. They create the content in exchange for prestige. That's what I think is, is destroying a generation in terms of mental health. And that's what I think is most damaging to democracies.”
Haidt: Internet trolls are almost exclusively men
“There are two other groups that use this very effectively. One is trolls and these are men. They're almost always men. I've never heard of a female troll who enjoy harassing, burning things down, causing trouble.”
Haidt: Republican Party has purged almost all of its moderates
“The Republican party is the stupid party. They shoot their moderates. They don't have any more moderates other than Liz Cheney and a couple, you know, but they used to have more than three and now they down to whatever, just a couple. The Republican Party is a…”
Haidt: humanID and Worldcoin could work for social media authentication
“Human ID.org and world coin, those are two that would work for level two authentication.”
Haidt: Twitter is the worst platform for reputational attacks and social shaming
“Twitter in particular, Twitter is the worst here, but it's also on Facebook and Slack and other channels.”
Haidt: Democratic Party is functional because moderates usually win debates
“It's not the Democratic Party that's stupid. The Democratic Party Has moderates and the far left and guess who wins? Usually the moderates. So the democratic party is a functional party. They have debates. The moderates usually win.”
Haidt: China will probably be more competent at online influence than Russia
“The Chinese have much more focused interests. Of course they want us to think well of China. They want to suppress anyone who criticizes China. And they're probably in the long run a lot more competent and capable and persistent than the Russians.”