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Filternets are not precision-guided takedown machines; they're indiscriminate cluster-bombs that destroy anything in the vicinity of illegal speech – including (and *especially*) the best-informed, most informative discussions of how these systems go wrong, and how that blocks the complaints of the powerless, the marginalized, and the abused.
Copyright Takedowns Are a Cautionary Tale That Few Are Heeding
Cory Doctorow
Artificial intelligence has been catnip for fascists ever since its earliest days, a trait it has not lost today.
Emily F. Gorcenski
Norman Packard
Others told us that Brand couldn’t really be working class, because he was a millionaire. It’s alarming how many ‘leftists’ seemed to fundamentally agree with the drift behind Paxman’s question: ‘What gives this working class person the authority to speak?’ It’s also alarming, actually distressing, that they seem to think that working class people should remain in poverty, obscurity and impotence lest they lose their ‘authenticity’.
Exiting the Vampire Castle
openDemocracy
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