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Re:The AI Community Needs Fo Take Responsibility for Its Tec... by gmueckl on Sunday January 05, 2020 @05:50AM (#21960680)
No, unmoderated online platforms can easily become biased via some dominant groups of members that exhibit intolerance against views they don't share. The result is implicit moderation.
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Re:The AI Community Needs Fo Take Responsibility for Its Tec... by simianparrot on Sunday January 05, 2020 @07:37AM (#21961011)
The platform is still neutral, in your example, even if the community causes self-censorship or self-exclusion to "outsiders" by its dominance.

The platform is the carrier, not the message.

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Re:The AI Community Needs Fo Take Responsibility for Its Tec... by thu2111 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @01:48PM (#21963065)
There's no such thing as implicit moderation. There might be people getting sick of it and leaving, but that's not the same thing as moderation.
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