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Newspapers are responsible for what they publish and the owners can be sued for defamation or held to account. Big tech companies off-load that burden by sayin
by DanBC 7y ago
Newspapers are responsible for what they publish and the owners can be sued for defamation or held to account.
Big tech companies off-load that burden by saying "our users are arseholes and it's impossible to police what they say". The most extreme example are the lengths BackPage went to in order to keep taking money to place ads for children that had been kidnapped and drugged and were being offered for rape.
- MichaelMoser123 7y agoAnd in addition they can can claim to be unbiased and blame it all on the ML modell.
- PorterDuff 7y agoIn terms of celebrities/politicians, it's worth glancing through late 19th C. newspapers. They make the modern version look positively unbiased and polite.
- makomk 7y agoNewspapers in the US have extremely strong protections against defamation lawsuits. This is especially true when the falsehoods in question are targeted against politicians they disapprove of, but even spreading partisan lies about kids that lead to the kids in question receiving a torrent of death threats and a large number of people plotting to make them unemployable for the rest of their lives is not sufficient grounds for a defamation lawsuit. The anti-big-tech folks, for the most part at least, seem to have absolutely no problem with this.