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Before everyone piles on about the author being a technical idiot and assigning conspiracy to eventual consistency, it does reveal a more interesting insight in
by dreamfactory2 12y ago
Before everyone piles on about the author being a technical idiot and assigning conspiracy to eventual consistency, it does reveal a more interesting insight in a world where tech folk are largely in denial of the real-world political consequences of their work - that eventual consistency can potentially provide a cover of plausible deniability to censorship.
- pain 12y agoExactly. How fb privately moderates manually and can delete entire posts without question or reversal, falls through cracks. Facebook needs to determine a way to score and moderate without annihilating individual writers selectively. Even just cause it frequently has mistakes. We don't need to recreate jail statistics with guilt and innocence so pronounced by secret individual actions. We can record it.