The secret rules of the internet: The murky history of moderation, and how it’s shaping the future of free speech. http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderator-history-youtube-facebook-reddit-censorship-free-speech
http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderator-history-youtube-facebook-reddit-censorship-free-speech
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I've been a moderator for a tech board but it was very specific and off topic was pretty easy to determine. With Data Analytics more automated moderation should be available. Unfortunately this could end up send people the most harmful media for assessment.
ReplyDeleteIn almost 10,000 words not a single mention of ethical philosophy or moral principles!
ReplyDeleteIt’s almost as if this is a tacit admission that Silicon Valley has no moral consciousness, and its tech employees are all ethically void.
It’s hard to work out whether this is the consequence of an education system stripped of actual education by bigoted right wing politicians seeking to prevent intelligent questioning of religion and the state, or whether it is the blight of reductionist determinism so prevalent in STEM graduates.
Of course, the most simple answer – Occam’s Razor – is that tech companies are no different from other US corporations, and therefore immune to morality and likely to act only when the cost of not acting on ethical lines outweighs the cost of doing nothing at all to prevent the promotion of hatred, cruelty, and murder. It seems inevitable that the state will have to step in and make the tech giants much more accountable for the dreck they promote.
Authors Buni and Chemaly appear to be products of the morally nihilistic US system themselves, almost making excuses for the staggeringly ineffective and idiotic ‘efforts’ at moderation.
The truth is that this is not nearly as hard as the Valley whiners would have us believe. It requires only human decency and some elementary knowledge of ethical philosophy to derive a set of principles guiding censorship. The hard part is finding people able to make sound judgements based on critical analysis.
Talk of using technology filters is just an admission that the humans in IT, from boardroom to open plan design studio, are ethically stunted creatures with not a clue about recognising right from wrong.
Great art.
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