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The First Amendment Is Out of Control
- mitchbob 2y agohttps://archive.ph/2024.07.02-155113/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/opinion/supreme-court-netchoice-free-speech.html https://archive.ph/2024.07.02-155113/https://www.nytimes.com...
- delichon 2y ago> It did so by blithely assuming that those algorithmic decisions are equivalent to the expressive decisions made by human editors at newspapers. Because human editors pick the algorithms. The algorithms are not independent actors, they are concrete implementations of editors' intentions. As someone who writes algorithms-for-editors for food I am painfully aware of that.
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- richrichie 2y ago"The First Amendment is first for a reason. Second Amendment is just in case the first one doesn't work out." - Dave Chappelle
- techostritch 2y agoDoes this article really start “the first amendment was great when it was used for people like me (news organizations) but now others are benefiting? That’s out of control!”
- dekhn 2y agoSee also: everything Tim Wu writes.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoRelated: US Supreme Court throws out rulings on state laws regulating social media https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40847076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40847076
- incomingpain 2y ago1st amendment is a prohibition on the government. Essentially the government or any authority can never take control; exceptions being extremely niche. Therefore it's correct for it to be out of control. The author arguing that this is a problem is someone arguing against civil rights.
- electricdreams 2y ago[dead]
- bediger4000 2y agoWho gets to pick which amendments are "out of control"?