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I have read the “revelations” and… they weren’t that interesting to be honest. Pretty much what I expected.
by eightysixfour 4y ago
I have read the “revelations” and… they weren’t that interesting to be honest. Pretty much what I expected.
- fullshark 4y agoOnly maybe cause you work in tech (i assume). A lot of people don't know how these content moderation decisions go down. A mix of public rules, subjective parsing of their language, and external pressure. The last one being the one naive people might not really know about. I think it should be more open and less subjective frankly, especially if the external pressure comes from a government official, which means it should be interpreted in many cases as a threat. Edit: I think this is kind of the "smoking gun" of the files (8-12): https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598827602403160064 https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598827602403160064 Basically if you give outside actors direct lines to make grievances on content on your platform, you give them special powers to censor content, at the very least boosting the spam/toxic classifiers for stuff they object to. People were not aware of this mechanism.
- pessimizer 4y agoThey seem to be pretty much what everyone expected. The question is whether that's alarming to you or is it a "nothingburger."
- SV_BubbleTime 4y agoYou were aware that Twitter was in direct contact with Democrat politicians and campaigns to censor opponents? It was news to me that they were have weekly meetings with FBI and Intelligence communities where the topic was directly about conservatives in government, I guess I was out of the loop on those.