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 It's as if your boss handed you a paycheck with only half your pay in it, and when you asked what happened to the other half, your boss said, "You broke some rules so I docked your pay, but I won't tell you which rules because if I did, you might figure out how to break them without my noticing." Content moderation is the only part of information security where #SecurityThroughObscurity is considered good practice: https://doctorow.medium.com/como-is-infosec-307f87004563 28/ 12 comments
The post-Twitter platforms like #Mastodon and #Tumblr are E2E platforms, designed around the idea that if someone asks to hear what you have to say, they should hear it. Rather than developing algorithms to override your decisions, these platforms have extensive tooling to let you fine-tune what you see. https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/08/locus-of-individuation/#publish-then-filter 30/ The online free speech debate is stupid because it has all the wrong focuses: * Focusing on improving algorithms, not whether you can even *get* a feed of things you asked to see; * Focusing on whether unsolicited messages are delivered, not whether *solicited* messages reach their readers; * Focusing on algorithmic transparency rather, not whether you can opt out of the behavioral tracking that produces training data for algorithms; 32/ * Focusing on whether platforms are policing their users well enough, not whether we can leave a platform without losing our important social, professional and personal ties; * Focusing on whether the limits on our speech violate the First Amendment, rather than whether they are unfair: https://doctorow.medium.com/yes-its-censorship-2026c9edc0fd 33/ The wholly artificial distinction between "freedom of speech" and "freedom of reach" is just more self-serving nonsense and the only reason we're talking about it is that a billionaire dilettante would like to create chokepoints so he can extract payola from his users and meet his debt obligations to the Saudi royal family. 34/ @pluralistic is there a tool for this app that puts together a thread that you can then share outside the app? Sort of like threadreaderapp.com did for the bird site?  |
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That's why content moderation algorithms are a #labor issue, and why projects like Tracking Exposed, which reverse-engineer those algorithms to give creative workers and their audiences control over what they see, are fighting for labor rights:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/tracking-exposed-demanding-gods-explain-themselves
We're at the tail end of a ghastly, 15-year experiment in neo-Bellheadism, with the big platforms treating end-to-end as a relic of a simpler time, rather than as "an elegant weapon from a more civilized age."
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That's why content moderation algorithms are a #labor issue, and why projects like Tracking Exposed, which reverse-engineer those algorithms to give creative workers and their audiences control over what they see, are fighting for labor rights:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/tracking-exposed-demanding-gods-explain-themselves