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2024-07-03 -Land of the Free

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Posted by badanov 2024-07-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Down for most of a day the usual suspect will get a lot of slobbering pats on the back.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-07-03 11:19|| 2024-07-03 11:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Linsux!

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-07-03 11:21|| 2024-07-03 11:21|| Front Page Top

#3 ~~perceived~~ documented

FIFY

Posted by Mercutio 2024-07-03 11:25|| 2024-07-03 11:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Ooh. Let's use bold and hope people think it's a link.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-07-03 11:31|| 2024-07-03 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 And yet here you are, front of the cue, eager for a double-post.

It did so by blithely assuming that those algorithmic decisions are equivalent to the expressive decisions made by human editors at newspapers.

An algorithm, determined by humans (Thanks GoogleAI!), in a consistent and efficient manner. Sounds like job concern to me. Oh, tracking back:

that limit the ability of social media platforms to remove or moderate content.

That is active, not perceived, involvement.

This is a hack job article.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-07-03 11:34|| 2024-07-03 11:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Well. I didn't double post. Is the acid good?

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-07-03 11:35|| 2024-07-03 11:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Ohhh. A badonov post. No wonder it's darkening you trip.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-07-03 11:37|| 2024-07-03 11:37|| Front Page Top

#8 He's keeping the site up, dontchaknow.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-07-03 11:38|| 2024-07-03 11:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Knew it would bother you, Frank. All good.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-07-03 11:42|| 2024-07-03 11:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Knew it would bother you, Frank. All good.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-07-03 11:43|| 2024-07-03 11:43|| Front Page Top

#11 #6 Well. I didn't double post. Is the acid good?
Posted by: M. Murcek

Posted by Frank G 2024-07-03 11:43|| 2024-07-03 11:43|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ A very weird cat. In charge of shit.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-07-03 11:47|| 2024-07-03 11:47|| Front Page Top

#13 Frank's weird insults are keeping the site up today.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-07-03 11:55|| 2024-07-03 11:55|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ Everyone here provides something.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-07-03 12:27|| 2024-07-03 12:27|| Front Page Top

#15 There's quite a bit here that might be pruned.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-03 12:27|| 2024-07-03 12:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Freeze peach is the greatest weapon of the antisemite.
If Twitter had cracked down hard after Oct 7 we wouldn't be in this situation now, with antisemitism running rampant and unchecked, and Twitter a primary cause of infection. Facebook and Youtube don't allow this garbage.

Posted by Vortigern Borgia1150 2024-07-03 12:56|| 2024-07-03 12:56|| Front Page Top

#17 Like, wow.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-07-03 14:01|| 2024-07-03 14:01|| Front Page Top

#18 Erb is trying to be cleverly provocative, poor soul.

Posted by Cured Romantic 2024-07-03 14:43|| 2024-07-03 14:43|| Front Page Top

#19 Out of control?

OK, let's shut down WaPo and NYT. Let's see if they want to defend the First.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-07-03 16:07|| 2024-07-03 16:07|| Front Page Top

#20 "Political correctness is America's newest form of intolerance, and it is especially pernicious because it comes disguised as tolerance."

It presents itself as fairness, yet attempts to restrict and control people's language with strict codes and rigid rules," Carlin

Posted by DarthVader 2024-07-03 16:15|| 2024-07-03 16:15|| Front Page Top

#21 Mr. Borgia1150 is the Toronto ponce who gets off on pretending to be an eeeeevil American. He never learnt proper Canadian good manners, poor dear — I can only imagine how much he has disappointed his mother.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-07-03 17:38|| 2024-07-03 17:38|| Front Page Top

#22 Dang TW, you really know how to skewer a miscreant with the soft admonition. Were you Southern, it would be the proverbial "Bless His Heart" allusion to imbecility!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-07-03 19:10|| 2024-07-03 19:10|| Front Page Top

#23 Mr. Wu is a law professor at Columbia who writes often about Big Tech. He served on the National Economic Council as a special assistant to the president for competition and tech policy from 2021 to 2023.

No sympathetic Chinese influence on Biden policies, I suppose.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-03 21:08|| 2024-07-03 21:08|| Front Page Top

#24 If I have a handle on this, please help or fill in:
The mass media service runs an algorithm on the submitted content. It counts naughty words, phrases, etc. and score enough points, the content gets flagged and a censor reviews the content.

The previous is a hard analysis data vs. the algorithm; this is the human part.

The censor then conducts an interview with the poster, and can apply a series of procedures to poster - demonetize, watch training videos, which parts need altering, even deplatform. Even after the struggle session the censor could add further penalties, like adding auto-naughty points to additional posted content.

And this is where the ruling kicks in? That that portion is randomly variations in the thinking of the inquisitor can be wildly inconsistent and unforgiving, which can have a direct monetary impact on the client such as advertising revenue, as opposed to a private non-contracted site. What the ruling is saying is that both the algorithm and the censor are both under the scrutiny of federal guidelines, the algorithm is a solid piece of evidence where a human involvement is inconsistent in comparison?

*disclaimer: I've been zapped by such a thing; advertised on advertface, and when shopping insurance was directly declined by content with no explanation without contacting for inquiry based on that information. Nothing illegal, hardly, don't even need special license to peddle, but depending on who the inquisitor was, and off paper guidelines, is controversial. Mr. Wu, Columbia law professor, special assistant tech policy. is arguing that those censors are necessary, especially so since it is off the record. It isn't 'perceived'.

And yes. Thank you badanov and all others underneath the hood; hit the tip.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-07-03 21:32|| 2024-07-03 21:32|| Front Page Top

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