I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine

Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine by chrischen on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:59PM (#26244736)

That coup attempted happened because the powers at hand missed it. In the aftermath Parlor is shut down, and the powers at hand would never allow such a thing to happen again. So at best you can say the censorship apparatus in the US is less effective, but still present.

And yes, the US government didn't do the censorship, but rather the private platforms that wield the power did so.

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Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine by orisho on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:17PM (#26244883)

But why did they miss it? I believe they did so because this kind of speech is not unusual. So even though it was out in the open, likely reported many times as people do on social platforms - it was missed because it was regarded as people saying extreme thngs but not going to act on them. In other words, there's a lot of this kind of speech in modern times, but it doesn't get censored and so actually dangerous speech gets missed.

And then they actually went through with it - so many private organizations took action. And yet, the government did not force their hand.

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Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine by chrischen on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @04:50AM (#26248318)

Well the guy in charge of monitoring security and being ahead of this stuff was fired. So I’d assume if we had been tolerant before we won’t be so tolerant of this speech in the future.

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