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> ejects prominent politicians is political censorship And is evidence that the _algorithms aren’t working correctly_. They’re supposed to pinpoint indisputab
by commandlinefan 7y ago
> ejects prominent politicians is political censorship
And is evidence that the _algorithms aren’t working correctly_. They’re supposed to pinpoint indisputably hateful rhetoric and if they’re producing significant false positives then yes, Mr. Cohen, that _is_ a bad thing. A _very_ bad thing.
- methehack 7y agoOr is it evidence that the politicians aren't working correctly?
- tpush 7y ago... or those "prominent politicians" are using "indisputably hateful rhetoric".
- commandlinefan 7y agoWell, that’s the sound-bite/bumber-sticker/I’m-on-the-right-side-of-history-so-I-don’t-care-what-the-collateral-damage-is-as-long-as-Trump-suffers quip, but, no, no they aren’t. When I was young, the censors were all right-wing Christian conservatives, and we successfully (for the most part) fought back against them. One of the most often-repeated weapons in the fight against right-wing censorship back then was, “if you accept censorship of obscenity, you’re going to end up with censorship of political viewpoints”. Yet here we are, in spite of the relatively victory against right-wing censorship, staring down the barrel of much worse left-wing KGB-style censorship.
- badrequest 7y agoIt's very generous of you to assume they're false positives.