Social media censorship roundup - Page 2

Undertoad · 01-13-2020, 03:03 PM

After Soleimani’s death, Instagram shuts down Iranian accounts

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At least fifteen Iranian journalists have reported having their accounts suspended, according to the International Federation of Journalists. Government-owned and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-affiliated media agencies such as Tasnim News Agency, the Iran Newspaper and Jamaran News all had their accounts, with a combined hundreds of thousands of followers, removed entirely by Instagram. “This poses an immediate threat to freedom of information in Iran,” the International Federation of Journalists said in a statement.

But did it affect just the official Iranian news agencies? Of course not!

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Iranian influencers, human rights advocates, and activists are also experiencing account shutdowns.

“It’s very widespread, it’s huge,” said Amir Rashidi, an Iran internet security and digital rights researcher based in New York, who watched on Instagram as account after account in Iran was shut down or had posts removed after users discussed the killing. “Every person I saw that posted about Soleimani on Instagram, almost all of their posts have been removed.”

Flint · 01-13-2020, 08:15 PM

Troubling. Good lord.

Undertoad · 01-16-2020, 07:49 PM

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Here's a real world example from 2019. 1) YouTube gets bad press because stories say it has Nazis. 2) YouTube advertisers panic. 3) YouTube modifies its algorithm to demonetize, and never recommend, all videos that contain the word "Nazi". 4) All history-teaching and anti-Nazi videos that mention the word are demonetized and never recommended.

YouTube has now censored the very anti-Nazi 1943 Frank Capra documentary "Prelude to War".

It was financed by the US Gov, shown to all soldiers.

The uploader was well-known internet archivist Carl Malamud.

It's important historical material.

The automatic ban survived a manual appeals process, which means it was reviewed by a human reviewer and judged to be in Violation of the YouTube Community Guidelines.

Gravdigr · 01-16-2020, 07:57 PM

History, deny it, it never happened.

henry quirk · 01-16-2020, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

History, deny it, it never happened.

Read books (before the Firemen come).

Griff · 01-17-2020, 08:16 AM

It would appear, we are fucking this up.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-17-2020, 02:49 PM

It's a byproduct of AI's one-algorithm-fits-all solutions. Them's the rules, baby, no exceptions, no borderline cases, black of white, live or die. Law & order has no room for justice.

Undertoad · 01-17-2020, 03:03 PM

The Nerd City video worked out that the algorithms are being trained by offshore workers in third world countries.

Such as this one, I'm betting:

The automatic ban survived a manual appeals process, which means it was reviewed by a human reviewer and judged to be in Violation of the YouTube Community Guidelines.

Once the ban is human-reviewed, it's more permanent and will be used by the algorithm going forward.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-17-2020, 03:15 PM

So some human says, yup, has the word Nazi, ban it.

Griff · 01-17-2020, 03:42 PM

Some human, possibly ESL, from a different culture...

xoxoxoBruce · 01-18-2020, 12:40 AM

ESL = English as a Second Language, had to Google it, too many abbreviations and acronyms.

Luce · 01-20-2020, 05:09 PM

So maybe the free market isn't as free as it sounds.

henry quirk · 01-20-2020, 09:01 PM

😕

Luce · 01-21-2020, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by henry quirk

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A free market has never existed and cannot exist, for the exact same reason that communism doesn't work in practice.

This social media weirdness is a prime example of this.

henry quirk · 01-21-2020, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Luce

*A free market has never existed and cannot exist, for the exact same reason that **communism doesn't work in practice.

This social media weirdness is a prime example of this.

*Why?

**Why?

01-13-2020, 08:15 PM	#17
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Troubling. Good lord. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

01-16-2020, 07:57 PM	#19
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	History, deny it, it never happened. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

01-17-2020, 08:16 AM	#21
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	It would appear, we are fucking this up. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

01-17-2020, 02:49 PM	#22
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It's a byproduct of AI's one-algorithm-fits-all solutions. Them's the rules, baby, no exceptions, no borderline cases, black of white, live or die. Law & order has no room for justice. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-17-2020, 03:15 PM	#24
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	So some human says, yup, has the word Nazi, ban it. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-17-2020, 03:03 PM	#23
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	The Nerd City video worked out that the algorithms are being trained by offshore workers in third world countries. Such as this one, I'm betting: The automatic ban survived a manual appeals process, which means it was reviewed by a human reviewer and judged to be in Violation of the YouTube Community Guidelines. Once the ban is human-reviewed, it's more permanent and will be used by the algorithm going forward.

01-17-2020, 03:42 PM	#25
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Some human, possibly ESL, from a different culture... __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

01-18-2020, 12:40 AM	#26
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	ESL = English as a Second Language, had to Google it, too many abbreviations and acronyms. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-20-2020, 05:09 PM	#27
Luce Weaponized Funk Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: Arizona Posts: 446	So maybe the free market isn't as free as it sounds. __________________ Finagle's Law takes no prisoners.

01-20-2020, 09:01 PM	#28
henry quirk maskless: yesterday, today, tomorrow Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2,162	What 'free market'? 😕 __________________ like the other guy sez: 'not really back, blah-blah-blah...'

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