New content is now sliced on numerous dimensions & passed through tight, ever-updating filters before it reaches our eyeballs, which has weakened any shared understanding of what's taboo. We're way past drawing any clean lines
This is a neglected point: inconsistent/opaque content rules have an extra chilling effect on free speech. IMO: now that we all occupy our own little digital filter bubbles, the assumption that this is a moderating force no longer really holds. @juliagalef http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-200-timothy-lee-on-how-much-should-tech-companies-moderat.html …pic.twitter.com/2I9uWHhG1V
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Imagine being Twitter's Grand Poobah of Rules and trying to figure out what they're *concretely* being asked to do when a massive, mixed contingent of their users demands they "ban the nazis." Not what they *should* do, just what could possibly make everyone satisfied
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Agree, but getting the massive content distributors to force their users to even come into contact with their vegetables (much less eat them) is just a fully lost cause
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To a very real degree, it's irrelevant whether or not your unpopular opinion is formally removed if the only people who will ever see it are the few who have been algorithmically determined to approve of it
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I suspect that this also has a more insidious effect. As the risk-averse users self-censor, the window of acceptable speech narrows. Because of that, even previously borderline speech becomes increasingly unusual, and more risky.
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Granted. Next question: Is a chilling effect on free speech a bad thing? Considering that it does not prohibit utterances but inhibits low-intensity or low-confidence arguments, I'm honestly not sure.
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I think it works to promote groupthink within bubbles and thereby makes clashes between bubbles worse.
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This is very similar to Glenn Greenwalds argument about surveillance and the "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" trope. Well, sure. But when was the last time you spoke freely knowing others were listening?
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