{"id":4158,"date":"2018-08-08T13:24:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T13:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2018-08-08T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T13:24:43","slug":"stop-begging-social-network-ceos-for-censorship-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/08\/stop-begging-social-network-ceos-for-censorship-sam\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop begging social network CEOs for censorship \u2013 Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@xjawz\/stop-begging-social-network-ceos-for-censorship-e04854b97326\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/1600\/1%2Ach_J8BQTra9cB_AFMUOJdQ.png?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"aed1\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Zuckerberg explained that when they come across content that contains Holocaust denial, they essentially remove it from all promotional algorithms to curb it\u2019s spreading on the platform.<\/p>\n<p id=\"f8ea\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">As a free-speech absolutist (please don\u2019t mistake me for a constitutional originalist, I am not), I found the reaction extremely disturbing. Rather than seeing Twitter explode with conversations about the potential dangers of social network CEOs deciding what speech to promote and what not to, there was an outcry that Zuckerberg wasn\u2019t doing enough to censor \u2018fake news\u2019.<\/p>\n<p id=\"e90f\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">The words\u00a0<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">extremely disturbing<\/em>\u00a0above might read as hyperbolic, especially in this particular context of censoring abhorrent, easily falsifiable claims like \u2018the Holocaust didn\u2019t happen\u2019. But I don\u2019t think are, decisions like this one by Facebook to censor Holocaust denial set a precedent that normalizes behavior (censorship) that can be used it far less benign in the future.<\/p>\n<p id=\"8613\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Make no mistake, I think fake news is a problem on Facebook and they do need to measures to prevent falsehoods from rapidly spreading and influencing elections, but I don\u2019t think this is the answer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"bca4\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">You might think this precedent isn\u2019t a big deal. It is censorship of things we almost universally agree to be false and damaging, so would a social network ever censor important, less controversial opinions? Things that, might actually be true? Well, we don\u2019t even need to think up a hypothetical future situation \u2014this is already happening on YouTube. That\u2019s what makes this really scary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@xjawz\/stop-begging-social-network-ceos-for-censorship-e04854b97326\">Stop begging social network CEOs for censorship \u2013 Sam \u2013 Medium<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zuckerberg explained that when they come across content that contains Holocaust denial, they essentially remove it from all promotional algorithms to curb it\u2019s spreading on the platform. As a free-speech absolutist (please don\u2019t mistake me for a constitutional originalist, I am not), I found the reaction extremely disturbing. Rather than seeing Twitter explode with conversations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-154","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4159,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions\/4159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}