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Tag Archives: censorship
A quick note on censorship
Did you know that the LinkedIn community guidelines are interpreted in a way that makes it impossible to discuss a current employment case that’s currently being presented to a tribunal in the United Kingdom? Curious, as LinkedIn is supposed to … Continue reading
Neil Young and something about rocks and glass houses
I’ll be honest: I consider “artists” in favour of cancel culture and stifling free speech more like vampires than artists, sucking value from their environment. So right now, Neil Young isn’t a favourite of mine. I thought of listing all … Continue reading
Posted in Other
Tagged aids, andrew wakefield, anti-vax, cancel culture, censorship, chris best, covid-19, disinformation, hamish mckenzie, hunter biden, jack schafer, jairaj sethi, joe rogan, kyle rittenhouse, matt taibbi, measles, neil young, ottawa protests, spotify, vaccine, wi spa, winston marshall
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Free speech
This article by Greg Lukianoff over at Areo is a very good list of answers to common arguments against free speech: “Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments: Featuring That XKCD Cartoon Everyone Likes to Quote!” Assertion: Free speech rests … Continue reading
Posted in Communication
Tagged censorship, free speech, greg lukianoff, randall munroe, xkcd
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Preposterous
It should be no surprise that I subscribe to / “follow” people who might be blocked by current social media policies. This comment about a temporary ban on Facebook was interesting: Exactly those two points are interesting. Did she get … Continue reading
WordPress, ClassicPress or?
I know I keep going on about it, but I am one of those people who really do not like to the current and future editor in WordPress, the Gutenberg editor. And I know how hard it is to make … Continue reading
A cure for Fake News?
After combating disinformation/”fake news” online for years, are we actually winning? It feels like we are losing. I personally know a couple of people who deny the existence of COVID-19. I know some who believe many of the more outlandish … Continue reading
Posted in Other
Tagged censorship, censorship machines, conspiracy theories, disinformation, fake news, gurwinder bhogal
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So, is NetzDG good?
Following the endless saga of governments trying to restrict free speech, it is worth considering the German NetzDG law. NetzDG, Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (I am not kidding), subtitled “Gesetz zur Verbesserung der Rechtsdurchsetzung in sozialen Netzwerken”, or the “Network Enforcement Act” for … Continue reading
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Tagged censorship, censorship machines, egypt, germany, honduras, jacob mchangama, netzdg, pakistan, russia, turkey, venezuela
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It’s impossible, so it must be done quickly
Content moderation at scale is impossible, unless you want it to be random to a certain degree. This is not a surprise and yet politicians demand that tech companies do it anyway – like the German NetzDG law. NetzDG demands … Continue reading
Posted in Other
Tagged censorship, censorship machines, content moderation, hate speech, jacob mchangama, jeff jarvis, moderation at scale, netzdg, stephen fry
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Why moderation at scale doesn’t work
Writing about PayPal reminded me of that time Archie McPhee “We Make Weird” – currently selling a plastic “Squirrel In Underpants Nodder” – was unable to sell “Tardigrade Ornaments” online. Tardigrade as in Waterbears, those adorable microscopic creatures that live … Continue reading
Posted in Development
Tagged academia, censorship, censorship machines, content moderation, eff, eu, masnick's impossibility theorem, mike masnick, paypal, twitter, youtube
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