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Re:Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Po... by sheepmullet on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:37PM (#17420685)
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.

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Re:Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Po... by pmarreck on Saturday June 30, 2018 @09:10PM (#17433537)
I know tastes differ across space, but there must be some minimum standard that would satisfy almost everyone
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Re:Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Po... by sheepmullet on Monday July 02, 2018 @05:10PM (#17445350)
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.
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