Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says

Post by 2Gkashmiri » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 2:08 PM UTC

news_user wrote: post #102

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #29

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eh. in india the government sets the boogeyman and the national media as well as the government troll factory just lap it up. read these posts. india government calls anything critical of its actions on social media as "misuse" because it breaks the image of "worlds largest democracy". Twitter is being assholes. they should just patch up like facebook which fully complies with government meaning facebook becomes the…

Twitter should patch up and let a billion people have uncertain future on free speech (or at least what's left of it) amidst a blatant dystopia?

Post by pelorat » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 2:09 PM UTC

Post by option_greek » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 2:13 PM UTC

potamic wrote: post #37

I don't know if many people realize, but this is a pivotal moment for freedom of speech in India. The archaic IT act and National Security Act are already being severely abused to arrest journalists and activists, and the new 2021 rules take this to a completely new level. What they are essentially going for is unrestricted authority on content takedown and traceability of originator of content which will force compa…

Post by selimthegrim » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 2:14 PM UTC

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>So, those people were jailed for mocking the death of a politician, not for merely saying that cowdung does not cure covid. Again, not illegal to make fun of dead people.

>Again, not illegal to make fun of dead people. In India? Who knows? Probably not NSA worthy, but I wouldn't bet against anything being illegal in India. I certainly know one person who was kept in jail for years for mocking one dead person (PBUH). That person did eventually get out on bail only to soon have his throat cut. But I guess that case ties into mocking religious feelings of a community (but then, so does t…

Post by AbrahamParangi » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 2:14 PM UTC

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I think most would call the original pagerank algorithm unbiased. Sure, any algorithm will have a bias towards a certain content length, or towards pages that contain the search terms at a particular density. But by doing that you don't arrive at algorithms that have an opinion on the holocaust or Tiananmen Square [1]. Of course Twitter somehow managed to implement the worst of both worlds, with a sorting algorithm t…

> I think most would call the original pagerank algorithm unbiased. I disagree: the point of the original Pagerank algorithm was its bias. In particular, its use of link weights gave the algorithm a strong bias for (a proxy for) relevance. An "unbiased" search algorithm would need to return results based on simple criteria, readily explained and presented to the searcher, such as "date first crawled" or "number of ke…