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After reading the article it seems to me that, contrary to the title, the users don't do anything to actively "aid" the built-in blacklisting in the app?
by acqq 7y ago
After reading the article it seems to me that, contrary to the title, the users don't do anything to actively "aid" the built-in blacklisting in the app?
- pteraspidomorph 7y agoWell, that's the meaning of "unwitting". I think the article is only saying that tencent collect (information on) the pictures shared by users through the service.
- acqq 7y ago> that's the meaning of "unwitting". No: they don‘t aid, period. They just use the service which uses blacklist technologies. That‘s all I see there.
- crusty 7y agoIf the image classification for censorship is applied to all images sent worldwide, but only China-based accounts get censored, then just by using the app among non-China-registered accounts to share images that would be sensitive in China, uncensored users are unwittingly helping to build the censored image database before users in China ever try to share the material.
- acqq 7y agoBy that logic every internet user everywhere is “helping“ because wechat can train their algorithms on any public picture “before”. It‘s just a false claim that the “users” are helping.