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Maybe that's the next round in the information wars? Each side probing the automated moderating systems of large social media platforms until they find the righ
by johncessna 6y ago
Maybe that's the next round in the information wars? Each side probing the automated moderating systems of large social media platforms until they find the right sequence that will trigger a shutdown. I'd assume state actors will be able to do this on their own, but for us without state sponsorship, maybe you'll be able to buy it as a service off of the dark web.
- coolspot 6y agoDoesn’t work when the platform is aligned with the community you are trying to bomb. You can write anything in r/politics - the sub won’t be banned, because reddit supports this sub no matter what. You can write anything in a FB BLM group - the group won’t be banned.
- derefr 6y agoWhy wouldn't the probes be automated as well? I would expect some party to eventually unleash hatespeech spambots on the Internet, posting ban-worthy comments anywhere they can reach. The flood of those comments would both drown out any manual attempts at hatespeech, while also being so unilateral that it wouldn't really make sense to ban any individual community for having them any more.
- teeray 6y agoI love how Neal Stephenson predicted these spam bots in “Fall; or, Dodge In Hell”.
- jayd16 6y agoNext? Triggering automated bans has been a tactic for quite a long time.
- anticensor 6y agoDiscord applies automated bans for spamming and API abuse, not for hate speech.