Re:Judges Rule Big Tech's Free Ride on Section 230 Is Over
by immibis on Thursday August 29, 2024 @03:28PM
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Refusal to moderate, though, is also a bias. It produces a bias where the actors who post the most have their posts seen the most. Usually these posts are Nigerian princes, Viagra vendors, and the like. Nowadays they'll also include massive quantities of LLM-generated cryptofascist propaganda (but not cryptomarxist propaganda because cryptomarxists are incompetent at propaganda). If you moderate the spam, you're biasing the site away from these groups.
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Re:Judges Rule Big Tech's Free Ride on Section 230 Is Over
by itsdrewmiller on Thursday August 29, 2024 @03:49PM
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You can't just pick anything and call it a "bias" - absolutely unmoderated content may not (will not) represent the median viewpoint, but it's not the hosting provider "bias" doing so. Moderating spam is also not "bias" as long as you're applying content-neutral rules for how you do that.