Re:Ad block and you don't stop
by kstrauser on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:44PM
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I'm so torn on that one. On one hand, yeah, it's creepy that a company would decide whether my content is truthful enough to carry. On the other, there's been so much targeted disinformation this year that I can totally understand Mailchimp not wanting to carry QAnon idiocy, or anti-vaccine propaganda, or "COVID is a hoax" things, or other content that causes direct, measurable harm against the country.
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Re:Ad block and you don't stop
by crocodiletears on Monday November 23, 2020 @03:21PM
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My big issue, is that I don't particularly trust any organnization to audit information in a non-partisan manner within the context of our polarized political and media landscapes.
I fully trust that the policy has been implemented with the best of intentions, but without a common core of cultural values, an environment of partisan hostility, and accepted narratives downstream from the raw data being interpreted as the absolute 'truth' by either side, I think it's safest to select contractors that you expect won't fold under political pressure, or engage in their own activism if your product is meant to be mass market.
Either that, or integrate a level of service redundancy to account for potential deplatforming from any of your providers.
If your product or service is meant to serve a partisan niche, I think you have a lot more latitude.