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As long as you can read ISIS's Dabiq on line [1], censorship isn't working. As long as you can read Stormfront's White Pride World Wide [2], censorship isn't working. Facebook is not the Internet, even if Zuckerberg would like it to be. [1] http://www.clarionproject.org/docs/islamic-state-isis-isil-d... [2] https://www.stormfront.org
As long as you can read ISIS's Dabiq on line [1], censorship isn't working. As long as you can read Stormfront's White Pride World Wide [2], censorship isn't working. Facebook is not the Internet, even if Zuckerberg would like it to be. [1] http://www.clarionproject.org/docs/islamic-state-isis-isil-d... [2] https://www.stormfront.org
Censorship isn't about total, fool-proof access limits. It's about trivial inconveniences[0]. "The human longing for freedom of information is a terrible and wonderful thing. It delineates a pivotal difference between mental emancipation and slavery. It has launched protests, rebellions, and revolutions. Thousands have devoted their lives to it, thousands of others have even died for it. And it can be stopped dead in…
The Internet Dream is sadly not compatibile with profit-driven world. We had some good times back when it all begun, because then nobody besides techies cared. Now that the Internet is a money making machine, there are tons of incentives to make it worse and little to make it better. In order to keep the corruption away, or maybe even limit it, all of us and our coworkers would have to start risking their livelihoods…
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of leverage software engineers already have, as evidenced by the wages and benefits that are standard in this industry, that we nevertheless refuse to use to try to exert some control over what we are building.
This is one of my favorite topics because I have cause for hope. The story of internet centralization is one of network effects. Even though the internet connects every computer on the planet directly, finding people to interact in the ways we want is difficult. We post things to Facebook and Twitter because that's where our friends and like-minded strangers are actually looking for things. To fight this, we tried fe…
> • You won’t necessarily know anything about the decisions that affect your rights, like whether you get a loan, a job, or if a car runs over you. Things will get decided by data-crunching computer algorithms and no human will really be able to understand why. This isn't a change from the current state of things. For a hundred years, each of these decisions have been made by neural networks which we scarcely underst…
Not to mention that they can usually explain their reasoning and behind a decision.
Machine learning algorithms can't do that.
> • You won’t necessarily know anything about the decisions that affect your rights, like whether you get a loan, a job, or if a car runs over you. Things will get decided by data-crunching computer algorithms and no human will really be able to understand why. This isn't a change from the current state of things. For a hundred years, each of these decisions have been made by neural networks which we scarcely underst…
Good luck doing that with the algorithm used by a Google car to determine which pedestrian to hit.
Are there any solutions? Is it possible to create a new network? How do you champion free speech and then try to control the ugly side? I'd love to read more I guess.
As long as you can read ISIS's Dabiq on line [1], censorship isn't working. As long as you can read Stormfront's White Pride World Wide [2], censorship isn't working. Facebook is not the Internet, even if Zuckerberg would like it to be. [1] http://www.clarionproject.org/docs/islamic-state-isis-isil-d... [2] https://www.stormfront.org
Censorship isn't about total, fool-proof access limits. It's about trivial inconveniences[0]. "The human longing for freedom of information is a terrible and wonderful thing. It delineates a pivotal difference between mental emancipation and slavery. It has launched protests, rebellions, and revolutions. Thousands have devoted their lives to it, thousands of others have even died for it. And it can be stopped dead in…
That's because we have won a partial victory. They would very much like a total, fool-proof access limit.