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viernes, 23 de octubre de 2020

"Otherwise objectionable" otiose?...


Is the excuse/get out of gaol free card/interpretation that Twitter and Facebook use - as they claim innocence due to their being only platforms and not publishers - about to be made redundant? From the Federal Communications Commission's website: FCC General Counsel Thomas M. Johnson Jr. writes "Last week, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced his intent to move forward with a rulemaking to interpret Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934. Under certain circumstances, Section 230 provides websites, including social media companies, that host or moderate content generated by others with immunity from liability."
"Section 230 provides, among other things, that "[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." It further provides that "[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of . . . any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.""


What constitutes material that can be excluded as 'otherwise objectionable'? Well we know that, anything that helps president Trump and/or is a bombshell against a Democrat, most recently Biden and 'the laptop from Hell' to quote The Donald. 

There are critics on both sides, an not just from the 'Orange Man Bad' crew. I heard about it from Dan

Otherwise objectionable gear from: Techdirt 

Update:  'Tech Censorship Is on a Dangerous Path' writes Armstrong Williams at The Daily Signal [LINK]: "The titans of social media, Dorsey at Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook... [  ]...want to control what the public sees, which enables them to better monitor and, ultimately, influence every aspect of society and
life. It is akin to China’s "free speech elite,"...[  ] " As we move closer to stifling free speech and elevating only the viewpoints desired by the Silicon Valley elite, let us remember the words of James Madison:

"Our First Amendment freedoms give us the right to think what we like and say what we please. And if we the people are to govern ourselves, we must have these rights, even if they are misused by the minority. We can never lose sight of this because the moment we do will be the moment we cease to be free.""

"Otherwise objectionable" otiose?...


Is the excuse/get out of gaol free card/interpretation that Twitter and Facebook use - as they claim innocence due to their being only platforms and not publishers - about to be made redundant? From the Federal Communications Commission's website: FCC General Counsel Thomas M. Johnson Jr. writes "Last week, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced his intent to move forward with a rulemaking to interpret Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934. Under certain circumstances, Section 230 provides websites, including social media companies, that host or moderate content generated by others with immunity from liability."
"Section 230 provides, among other things, that "[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." It further provides that "[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of . . . any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.""

What constitutes material that can be excluded as 'otherwise objectionable'? Well we know that, anything that helps president Trump and/or is a bombshell against a Democrat, most recently Biden and 'the laptop from Hell' to quote The Donald. 

There are critics on both sides, an not just from the 'Orange Man Bad' crew. I heard about it from Dan

Otherwise objectionable gear from: Techdirt 

Update:  'Tech Censorship Is on a Dangerous Path' writes Armstrong Williams at The Daily Signal [LINK]: "The titans of social media, Dorsey at Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook... [  ]...want to control what the public sees, which enables them to better monitor and, ultimately, influence every aspect of society and life. It is akin to China’s "free speech elite,"...[  ] " As we move closer to stifling free speech and elevating only the viewpoints desired by the Silicon Valley elite, let us remember the words of James Madison:

"Our First Amendment freedoms give us the right to think what we like and say what we please. And if we the people are to govern ourselves, we must have these rights, even if they are misused by the minority. We can never lose sight of this because the moment we do will be the moment we cease to be free.""

domingo, 30 de octubre de 2016

Opacity of ogling onomatomania II...






Hat-tip Zero Hedge. We knew about Google; we knew about Facebook (who are trying to blame algorithms [must be Al Gore Rhythms]: "Even though the math part of the data is unbiased, if the data encodes these social biases, it's hard to get away from that") but now pretty much all the major social networks (Google, Facebook, Buzzfeed, Instagram, Snapchat) are "fixing" their feeds...and I don't mean repairing.



How is it possible they missed (not slightly corrected) the biggest story in the USA* for so long?

* That the Hillary Clinton email-server investigation will be re-opened. The Director of the FBI (independently i.e. ignoring Attorney General Loretta Lynch [I wonder why?!!]) sent a letter to Congress saying that they had discovered e-mails that were relevant to the investigation. All this was ignored and stories with forty or more times fewer mentions getting preference. Wow, that data encoding social biases sure is effective.



Some say it could be payback; the whining Democratic supporters and Clinton shills and HRC herself are being very hypocritical; this is certainly not unprecedented...oh, against a Democrat nominee maybe it is.



Anyway, what we have here is...a popcorn overload!




Update 21:30 GMT: Ex CIA: "Nobody uses a private email server for official business. Period. Full stop."...[Link] "Anyone else who did such things in the government would long ago have been tried, convicted and sent to jail."



Exactly. 

Opacity of ogling onomatomania II...


Hat-tip Zero Hedge. We knew about Google; we knew about Facebook (who are trying to blame algorithms [must be Al Gore Rhythms]: "Even though the math part of the data is unbiased, if the data encodes these social biases, it's hard to get away from that") but now pretty much all the major social networks (Google, Facebook, Buzzfeed, Instagram, Snapchat) are "fixing" their feeds...and I don't mean repairing.

How is it possible they missed (not slightly corrected) the biggest story in the USA* for so long? * That the Hillary Clinton email-server investigation will be re-opened. The Director of the FBI (independently i.e. ignoring Attorney General Loretta Lynch [I wonder why?!!]) sent a letter to Congress saying that they had discovered e-mails that were relevant to the investigation. All this was ignored and stories with forty or more times fewer mentions getting preference. Wow, that data encoding social biases sure is effective.

Some say it could be payback; the whining Democratic supporters and Clinton shills and HRC herself are being very hypocritical; this is certainly not unprecedented...oh, against a Democrat nominee maybe it is.

Anyway, what we have here is...a popcorn overload!

Update 21:30 GMT: Ex CIA: "Nobody uses a private email server for official business. Period. Full stop."...[Link] "Anyone else who did such things in the government would long ago have been tried, convicted and sent to jail."

Exactly.