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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by cubefox on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:25AM (#36586323)
Previously things would be censored that were legitimate statistical data. Data can't be racist, but the old Twitter moderation team didn't care.
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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by astrange on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @04:04PM (#36591876)
Hate to break it to you but when Professor Skullmeasurement went to an African country in 1920 and gave people IQ tests in a language they didn't speak then wrote a paper about it, that data is in fact racist.

Or more recently, Harvard's algorithms that mathematically demonstrate Asians don't have interesting personalities.

https://twitter.com/achenfinance/status/1676008389804019713

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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by cubefox on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @06:02PM (#36593086)
It's US data. To claim it is racist and censor it is exactly the problem.
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