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> Corporations simply have a right to choose which speech they will AMPLIFY I'll readily admit that algorithms can amplify content; but more than enough people
by concinds 4y ago
> Corporations simply have a right to choose which speech they will AMPLIFY
I'll readily admit that algorithms can amplify content; but more than enough people have been tweeting for years and barely have any likes on their tweets (see @CNN, though I'm being cheeky). People say that algorithms reward bad content, because they amplify controversy; but really they just give people what they want. A "controversial" tweet with no likes won't get amplified.
The crux is that if you agree that due to their use of algorithms, these platforms "amplify" all the content they host, then surely that means they endorse whatever they don't ban, to some extent? I'm not making a legal argument, just an intuitive one. That reasoning doesn't scale to an understaffed, undermoderated social media platform that can't even ban the omnipresent "double your crypto" scam accounts.