Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia
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Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia
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Re: Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia
#2Has to be an overzealous AI surely, or is religion the one thing they /really/ don't want arguments to start on - maybe safer to just nip any flamewars in the bud?
Re: Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia
#3Content moderation at scale is hard.
Re: Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia
#4I think being allowed to die on your own terms is a right that every human should have. And I think assisted suicide is a good thing.
But I don’t understand why Twitter would block the Bishop for saying what he said. And the reason they gave, that it “promotes self harm”.. that’s straight up Kafkaesque.
Re: Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia
#5Has to be an overzealous AI surely, or is religion the one thing they /really/ don't want arguments to start on - maybe safer to just nip any flamewars in the bud?
the screenshot shows an appeal took place and their team looked at it and upheld it.
on edit: basically whoever read it probably did not have the English language skills to realize it was against Euthanasia, as the phrasing was more complicated than needed to make that point.
Re: Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia
#6I don't think this is "cancel culture" or being "woke" like the article implies. This is just an AI or inattentive human reviewer seeing the phrase "There is dignity in dying" in the same Tweet as the word "suicide" and misinterpreting it.
This just seems like a non-story that will get resolved once the right person at Twitter sees it, that is being pushed by a biased website in their fight against what they perceive as "cancel culture".
Re: Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia
#7I think being allowed to die on your own terms is a right that every human should have. And I think assisted suicide is a good thing. But I don’t understand why Twitter would block the Bishop for saying what he said. And the reason they gave, that it “promotes self harm”.. that’s straight up Kafkaesque.
The simplest answer is that a bot at twitter initiated the ban, the the low-paid worker who managed the appeal didn't have enough of a grasp of academic English and/or catholic theology to understand that the tweet in question was actually against assisted suicide.
Re: Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia
#8Has to be an overzealous AI surely, or is religion the one thing they /really/ don't want arguments to start on - maybe safer to just nip any flamewars in the bud?
the screenshot shows an appeal took place and their team looked at it and upheld it. on edit: basically whoever read it probably did not have the English language skills to realize it was against Euthanasia, as the phrasing was more complicated than needed to make that point.
Even with English language skills, maybe just scanning the text and not fully comprehending?
Slightly off-topic: I wonder how impartial a human has to be - would the outcome be different depending if the reviewer was a devoted catholic or an atheist?
Re: Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia
#9I don't think this is "cancel culture" or being "woke" like the article implies. This is just an AI or inattentive human reviewer seeing the phrase "There is dignity in dying" in the same Tweet as the word "suicide" and misinterpreting it. This just seems like a non-story that will get resolved once the right person at Twitter sees it, that is being pushed by a biased website in their fight against what they perceive…
Yes and no, but likely mostly no.
Keep in mind, the "intelligence" of those AI algorithms comes from datasets of previous behaviors. Given the popularity (?) of the cancel mindset on this particular platform it's reasonable to expect a bias in said data; and in turn the algorithm.
Rinse and repeat.
Re: Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia
#10I think being allowed to die on your own terms is a right that every human should have. And I think assisted suicide is a good thing. But I don’t understand why Twitter would block the Bishop for saying what he said. And the reason they gave, that it “promotes self harm”.. that’s straight up Kafkaesque.
The simplest answer is that a bot at twitter initiated the ban, the the low-paid worker who managed the appeal didn't have enough of a grasp of academic English and/or catholic theology to understand that the tweet in question was actually against assisted suicide.
That's plausible, but he was also turned down on appeal, which was probably by a different pair of eyes.