This story has one flaw: Facebook's censors aren't algorithms but human low wage laborers. The issue isn't principally different from that of a press distributor/wholesaler deciding not to put an issue of a newspaper on the newsstands because it contains full-frontal nudity.
This is a good example of how supposed "algorithmic governance" can be used as a smokescreen for old-fashioned human intervention, likely as a trick for avoiding liability. -F On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Felix Stalder <fe...@openflows.com> wrote: > > "Listen, Mark, this is serious. First you create rules that don’t > distinguish between child pornography and famous war photographs. Then > you practice these rules without allowing space for good judgement. > Finally you even censor criticism against and a discussion about the > decision – and you punish the person who dares to voice criticism. > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
