Re:Adventures in Twitter Censorship [pdf]
by marcosdumay on Sunday October 18, 2015 @01:15PM
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The difference is completely in the eye of the beholder.
But a huge centralized curator that decides what everybody reads is something people feared for centuries. It does not really matter if its intention is benign.
Re:Adventures in Twitter Censorship [pdf]
by SFLemonade on Sunday October 18, 2015 @01:33PM
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Absolutely. And even more dangerous is the perception that there isn't a curator, when there really is one. That is the case with Facebook today.
Re:Adventures in Twitter Censorship [pdf]
by username223 on Sunday October 18, 2015 @01:22PM
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Does switching it from "top posts" back to "most recent" still fix it, or is even that filtered? They clearly want you to use their "curation," but a bit of fast scrolling and skimming still does a much better job.
I've been infuriated by Facebook because I have a local events group on high priority in my feed, but FB has decided I only want to see about one post in five. So I miss a lot of news I want to see.
Meanwhile I still get porn posts on the various technology groups I read, even though I keep asking not to see similar content.
I'd have no objection to a good AI editor curating my feed. But FB has a very bad AI editor making bad choices for reasons that ignore my interests, and I really don't want that at all.