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This seems like rich fodder for a tech debate: Trump's Twitter bans were deemed unconstitutional, how does that apply to the companies themselves? Is Google's d
by curo 8y ago
This seems like rich fodder for a tech debate: Trump's Twitter bans were deemed unconstitutional, how does that apply to the companies themselves? Is Google's discussion to change algos after the immigration ban just? Should antitrust laws protect not just consumer rights & competition, but voter rights & viewpoint diversity? How do you build a better algorithm for political threads?
Instead, even on HackerNews, you just see partisan criticism, minor viewpoint suppression, etc. This is ground zero for fixing these problems.