> Twitter could deploy an algorithm to remove more white supremacist hate-speech, but they have reportedly haven't because it would eject some very prominent politicians from their platform.
> Maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing.
While I appreciate the sentiment behind a lot of Baron Cohen's speech, and generally distrust Facebook, the idea of having what can be said on the platform regulated either by algorithms or by a large number of monitors does sound to me like a step too far. An algorithm that ejects prominent politicians is political censorship—that should not be OK.
It seems to me that misinformation should be fought with information, not censorship. Steps that are already being enacted, like “reduc[ing] the distribution of that content” and adding fact checking annotations to incorrect information, seems to do much of the same good while not also shifting the overton window towards Ministry of Truth roles for our already-too-powerful tech companies.
> Twitter could deploy an algorithm to remove more white supremacist hate-speech, but they have reportedly haven't because it would eject some very prominent politicians from their platform.
> Maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing.
While I appreciate the sentiment behind a lot of Baron Cohen's speech, and generally distrust Facebook, the idea of having what can be said on the platform regulated either by algorithms or by a large number of monitors does sound to me like a step too far. An algorithm that ejects prominent politicians is political censorship—that should not be OK.
It seems to me that misinformation should be fought with information, not censorship. Steps that are already being enacted, like “reduc[ing] the distribution of that content” and adding fact checking annotations to incorrect information, seems to do much of the same good while not also shifting the overton window towards Ministry of Truth roles for our already-too-powerful tech companies.