“This sounds as though it’s modeled on similar arrangements around child pornography. Except that there are some major differences between child pornography and “terrorist content.” The first is that child porn is de facto illegal. “Terrorist content” is quite frequently perfectly legal. It’s also much more of a judgment call. And based on this setup, allowing one platform partner to designate certain content as “bad” will almost certainly result in false positive designations that will flow across multiple platforms. That’s dangerous.
As we’ve discussed in the past, when you tell platforms to block “terrorist” content, it will frequently lead to mistakes, like blocking humanitarians documenting war atrocities. That kind of information is not just valuable, but necessary in understanding what’s happening. “
It is becoming very trendy to suggest that these social platforms must “do something” to prevent people from having, in essence, to see information they might not want to see, or they may not want others to see. Whether you are talking about “terrorist” content, hate speech or “fake” news, the question always comes back the same thing. Who decides what is appropriate and what isn’t, and what basis are they using for that decision? Sure, we can maybe find some obvious stuff that we can get agreement on, but eventually there’s going to be disagreement, and then what? How do I get my content put back if it gets marked as any of those things?
Who’s watching to make sure “safe” social networks don’t become completely void of free speech?
I haven’t yet seen exactly how this would work for myself, but in theory I think Facebook stumbled on to a change that most users are going to love! (For once!) The ability to set privacy on every individual entry is a huge game changer for how people will be using Facebook, IMHO. All too…
I read a quote in this article about Facebook Friend Collector’s being pretty normal, that really sums up the value in social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook for me. “You can ask somebody, ‘Of your 300 Facebook friends how many are actually friends?’ and people will say, ‘Oh, 30 or 40 or 50,’” Professor…
Three years ago, I wrote a bit about being thankful for social networking. As I looked back over posts from previous Thanksgiving Holidays here in the US, I was struck by what I wrote then, and how much more it applies to my life now: As we in the US get ready to celebrate the…
Truthfully, I didn’t know all of these, and I use Dropbox all the time. May have to give a few of these tricks a try as well, especially using it to request files from someone else. I had not thought of that. Are you a Dropbox user? Have you used all of these? 15 Things…
More Than Half Of Employees Are Afraid To Discuss Their Mental Health With Their Boss, New Data Shows Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates This seems ridiculous, and yet oh so believable. LastPass Checks Dark Web Passwords – You should use a password manager anyway, but this is…
““People are more willing to share an article than read it. This is typical of modern information consumption,” said the study’s co-author Arnaud Legout in a statement. “People form an opinion based on a summary, or a summary of summaries, without making the effort to go deeper.”” I didn’t need a study, I already noticed…
