Re:Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Po...
by pmarreck on Thursday June 28, 2018 @01:04PM
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I can't find anything from a remotely unbiased source on "facebook hires censors" other than this: https://www.popsci.com/Facebook-hiring-3000-content-monitors
Which is basically just content monitoring that AI can't do... child exploitation, hate speech, gore, pornography, etc.
I think it's a pretty damn right-wing slippery-slope you're traversing if you assume that's equivalent to "censorship of rogue ideas"
Re:Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Po...
by azborder on Thursday June 28, 2018 @01:06PM
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“Hate speech” seems to cover a pretty wide spectrum these days.
Re:Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Po...
by pmarreck on Thursday June 28, 2018 @02:54PM
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Fair enough because I agree, nevertheless it’s a stretch to accuse The Social-Network Powers That Be of essentially a left-wing conspiracy
Re:Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Po...
by sheepmullet on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:37PM
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The bias makes sense and I wouldn't call it a conspiracy theory. Where are the censors hired?
Californians have a different idea about hate speech than people from Alabama who have a different view of hate speech than someone from Bangalore.
So if you hire your censors from California you are going to see right wing rogue ideas considered hate speech.
Re:Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Po...
by pmarreck on Saturday June 30, 2018 @09:10PM
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I know tastes differ across space, but there must be some minimum standard that would satisfy almost everyone
Re:Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Po...
by sheepmullet on Monday July 02, 2018 @05:10PM
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Of course there is a minimum standard - but the problem is to have effective censors you need to give them a degree of leeway/self-judgement and in a politically charged environment this will lead to bias.
The story was broadly covered by sources across the political spectrum.
And in answer to your two questions: Yes, I expect news sources to have journalisic integrity, even if the truth is not popular.