YOU SAID IT: Civility disappearing

CIVILITY DISAPPEARING

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When you write a letter to a newspaper, you have to identify yourself and the editor controls what they publish.

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On most social media, there are no such controls and anonymity makes people behave in ways they would never behave in person. As a result, society is becoming impolite and polarized.

Making matters worse are the algorithms in social media that reward outrageous posts while discouraging moderation and consensus. AI contributions will only make this animosity worse because it has no decency or soul.

Society needs to reward moderation and consensus before radical groups, on both sides of the spectrum, turn into violent mobs.

STEEN I. PETERSEN

NANAIMO, B.C.

NO BUSINESS BEING THERE

Can someone tell me what business Prime Minister Mark Carney had attending the peace summit in Egypt other than another opportunity for him to get out of Canada?

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This is the guy who, before any peace plan was in place, blatantly recognized the Palestinian state and was ultimately thanked by Hamas for doing so.

GISELE LAVICTOIRE

ORLÉANS

POTHOLE OLYMPICS OUTSIDE OTTAWA

Re: Ford Wrong on Radar, letter to the editor, Oct. 14

Someone tell the above letter writer to leave the National Capital Region and see the state of the roads in the remainder of Canada because they are crap. Twenty minutes outside Ottawa, it is the pothole-swerve Olympics.

Photo radar is a cash grab by politicians who can’t balance budgets and give money to every cause except fixing outdated infrastructure.

And, yes, I drive the speed limit and haven’t had a ticket in a decade.

DAVID JOHNSTON

KINGSTON

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