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Whether it's Sony Music claiming to own your performance of "Fur Elise" or a war criminal claiming authorship over a newspaper story about his crimes, platforms nuke first and ask questions never. Why not? If they ignore a takedown and get it wrong, they suffer dire consequences ($150,000 per claim). But if they take action on a dodgy claim, there are *no* consequences. Of *course* they're just going to delete anything they're asked to delete.
This is how platforms always handle liability, and that's a lesson that we really should have internalized by now.
Copyright Takedowns Are a Cautionary Tale That Few Are Heeding
Cory Doctorow
I know enough to know that I know nothing, or as statisticians themselves might put it, I know enough to be confident that my epistemic capacity approaches zero.
The One and the Many
Stephen Fry
To deliver both power and pleasure to users, interaction designers think first conceptually, then in terms of behavior, and last in terms of interface.
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Alan Cooper
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