I love the way this thread reframes 'not aggressively censoring wrongthink' as "misinformation promoting". There are many awful blooches; this is one of them. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/972591994659745792 …
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The obvious difference, though, is that the algorithm isn't pushing a line, it's *failing to push the one she wants pushed*.
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What line does she want pushed?
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She knows it when she sees it.
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A partisan newspaper has a party line. If they publish something, it's part of what they want people to believe. Her objection to """THE ALGORITHM""" is it's failing to *exclude* stuff *she doesn't want people to see*.
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If you can't distinguish between these cases, I don't think there's any value in discussing this further.
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Her specific error is called 'personalization' -- seeing all occurrences as a) willful b) directed at her. Like going into a grocery store and angrily pointing at the peanuts "DON'T YOU KNOW I'M **ALLERGIC**?"
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Put another way, she's claiming oppression when she's merely *not being obeyed*.
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... lol, what? No. the point I'm working towards is that human and algorithmic editorial decisions should be criticised on equal, consequentialist grounds. And that YT has a much bigger reach than, say, the Morning Star.
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