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It is also worse in that it creates a framework for special interest groups to act with special status for "detecting" and removing content without due process.
by slowmovintarget 4y ago
It is also worse in that it creates a framework for special interest groups to act with special status for "detecting" and removing content without due process.
Any group with an ideological bent, or an agenda can set themselves up as agents for monitoring "dangerous" content. They may even do that job for the stuff we want actually policed, but they'll also do things like remove all negative mentions of Xi Jinping, or any rumblings against the new Soma product...
A company does it on their own service. You go to another. A government sanctioned agent can do it to all services.