Moderation
New Yorker recommendation. A young, maybe Gen Z? Displaced by the diaspora of the double aughts? As a content moderator online, what happens. Falls somewhere between current events, and speculative fiction.
It’s a love story, set against a backdrop of questions and privacy, what current technology knows, can show, and a dilemma of immigration.
Some many years distant, Apple Computer nicked an idea, probably the whole backend of software, from AOL, and there was a brief time when there was an Apple virtual village, roughly 1988/9? CompuServe and AOL were more established, and the rest is history. But the story is an updated version of that, only with updated versions of virtual reality, and what that might be able to do. Plus the questions of privacy.
Interesting tale as it plays fast with cultural beliefs, and the main character, well, she identifies as Virgo — attention to detail, analytical mindset. Bit of a stalker, maybe?
The ideas and questions of cultural diaspora and the ethics of the virtual worlds with no barriers?
