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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
This normalizes information search as a process that doesn’t involve subjectivity (or curiosity, collaboration, negotiation, serendipity, skepticism, etc.).
The Blackbird Must Be Flying
Substack
Twelve million people in the United States alone were officially classified by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as “unemployed” prior to the pandemic, a distressing throng that nonetheless omits the 2.3 million people (of 10 million worldwide) incarcerated.
Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism
Anna Kornbluh
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