The Internet of Garbage Quotes

“When we seek to build truly equal platforms and marketplaces of ideas fit for the 21st century, we are trying to create things that have never existed and cannot be constructed by mindlessly applying principles of the past.”
― Sarah Jeong, The Internet of Garbage

“Code is never neutral, and interfaces can signal all kinds of things to users.”
― Sarah Jeong, The Internet of Garbage

“Individual users stay even if they don’t like the platform or the UI, because it’s where the conversation is happening. A social media platform is like the only mall or the only church in a small town. You might not like the mall, and you might not be a Christian, but you have to go meet with your neighbors somewhere.”
― Sarah Jeong, The Internet of Garbage

“the low, angry buzz that comes with being a target on the Internet.”
― Sarah Jeong, The Internet of Garbage

“This is one example where architecture can operate in tandem with moderation. Code is never neutral; it can inhibit and enhance certain kinds of speech over others. Where code fails, moderation has to step in. Sometimes code ought to fail to inhibit speech, because that speech exists in a gray area. (Think: emails in the Gmail system that have not yet received a reputation rating.) But it’s delusional to think that architecture never has any effect on speech whatsoever.”
― Sarah Jeong, The Internet of Garbage

“Beneath the Wikipedias and Facebooks and YouTubes and other shiny repositories of information, community, and culture—the Internet is, and always has been, mostly garbage.”
― Sarah Jeong, The Internet of Garbage