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There was a rumor that YT, FB, and Twitter have a deal with the Gov't regulators to leave them unregulated if they give a back channel of control to state censo
by ctrlp 5y ago
There was a rumor that YT, FB, and Twitter have a deal with the Gov't regulators to leave them unregulated if they give a back channel of control to state censors. There were some leaked documents about internal government "partner" programs. Did anything come of that? It read to me like they were outsourcing some of their censorship to state agents, or perhaps they were setting up rapid response customer service teams to implement state censorship policies (e.g., question the election, vaccine safety, pandemic origins, etc...)
I had thought they "just knew" what content to prohibit based on where the political winds were blowing, but maybe it was more coordinated.
- sneak 5y agoI imagine it would become formalized real quickly in wartime, too, even if it isn’t yet today. Centralized censorship platforms are an existential threat to a free society, an accident waiting to happen.