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You keep putting words in my mouth, I'm not saying anything about outlawing anything, just assigning liability. > Your post, like many others on this thread, i
by mullingitover 5y ago
You keep putting words in my mouth, I'm not saying anything about outlawing anything, just assigning liability.
> Your post, like many others on this thread, isn't articulating exactly what about FB's conduct you find objectionable?
The objectionable conduct is pretty thoroughly covered in the article, but to review:
> "Facebook over and over again has shown it chooses profit over safety"
- quotemstr 5y agoIllegal, liable, doesn't matter --- you want to use the state to drive certain kinds of ranking off the internet. Fine. What, precisely, is the line between algorithms acceptable to you and algorithms not? What is the precise conduct that would make liability attach to a ranking algorithm? You can emote, but you can't describe what exactly it is you would turn into a law.
- mullingitover 5y ago> You can emote, but you can't describe what exactly it is you would turn into a law. I thought I made it pretty clear from the outset I was talking about removing CDA Sec 230 protections for sites using bespoke (i.e. proprietary) curation algorithms for their feeds.
- quotemstr 5y agoSo any filter algorithm would be okay if open source?