[liberationtech] UK academics set to launch 'virus' software for online ‘hate speech’ in time for 2020 election

[Yosem Companys]

The issue well known in scholarly legal circles as "who controls the
controller?"

Popular culture has gone from celebrating individual freedom and the
Internet's crashing down of gates to trying to restore gatekeepers and
making sure people don't get out of line.

And, of course, whenever someone suggests we should install gates, we
should ask the question: Whose interests get to decide where the gates get
installed and how high? Because that's what it comes down to.

It's difficult for Western countries to take the moral high road when their
arguments about the Internet become the same as those of authoritarian
regimes.

I believe it was Schumpeter who wrote that unbridled capitalism and
unbridled socialism end up in the same place: monopoly.

On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 7:18 PM grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:

> > https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-019-09516-z
> > https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13888
> > https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14149
>
> Yet another twisted attempt to scrub the internet of diversity,
> more feature creep to making everything a Prior Restraint,
> including whatever you liberating for or against...
>
> Now with this, not only are they again outright censoring so
> that content is gone, not even a free speech zone, but this time
> disgustingly before speech is even made through an appearance,
> with corps trying to game looking good about censoring via this algo...
>
> But now you get to mark yourself to them and all their datawhoring
> social scoring "partners" as people who are opting in to Read Freely.
> You know you won't score well there either. Nice job...
>
> The letters you so virulently wish for are being written against you.
>
> One also must consider general harmlessness of speech
> ignorable in general by walking away, vs costly legal and
> time assaults launched by rabid anti-speech against companies,
> and people for voicing even the most boring opinions these days...
> sanitized, homogenized, lifeless...
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY
>
> If you don't want to buy the ticket to the show, then subscribe this
> algo plugin to your browser instead. Use the site's constrained-to-algo
> API to rage hammer all the content ratings down to "protect" other algo
> browser users like yourself, slide your virus slider to 0, and go outside.
>
> At least that way those who opt out of subscribing to the
> algo plugin will have nice diverse view and discourse by default,
> such as was before this insane internet censorship craze went viral.
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Zone
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_restraint
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
>
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