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How censorship in Silicon Valley is killing free speech [op/ed]
BetaNews.com ^ | 12-30-2019 | Derrick Wlodarz

Posted on 12/30/2019 9:34:08 AM PST by hasb3an

One of the largest glaring issues with how Silicon Valley is approaching censorship is the fact that the goalposts being set by firms are all over the board, with little industry-wide discussion on approach and limits, and other sensitivities for how such an important task is to be accomplished with transparency and due process.

So what has censorship in the modern age for the Facebooks and Twitters of the world devolved into? Siloed decision making by secretive "boards" that have limited diversification of background and worldview, all pushing ever-changing directives out to technical teams which must implement these wishes into algorithms for their respective platforms.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2020election; censor; censorship; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; freespeech; hatespeech; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine

1 posted on 12/30/2019 9:34:08 AM PST by hasb3an
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To: hasb3an

1. Censorship = they control the platform

2. They can be sued for libel for ANYTHING or any content on their platform. No 1st Amendment protections.

You can’t have it both ways.


2 posted on 12/30/2019 9:37:26 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: hasb3an

Silicon Valley collaboration with Red China is well-known.

It MAKES SENSE that this is the next step.


3 posted on 12/30/2019 9:44:14 AM PST by gaijin
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To: hasb3an

Other than social media, the el/hi schools and nationwide universities are doing a great job of killing free speech also.


4 posted on 12/30/2019 1:05:14 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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Its how leftists who have power act.

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5 posted on 12/30/2019 2:01:21 PM PST by elbook
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To: elbook

Its how leftists who have power act.

yup


6 posted on 12/30/2019 2:01:52 PM PST by samtheman (U.S. out of the U.N. --- U.N. out of the U.S.)
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