[ExI] elon on twitter

[Darin Sunley]

That's my point. Twitter's moderation already is and has been extensively
automated. The previous management did have software written, extensive
amounts of bleed-ing edge text analysis software, to do that job. And it
does it well.

Not that they'd want it made public. Human moderators serving as the face
of the software can tailor their presentation to be more palatable to the
public. Source code, inconveniently, tends to speak for itself

Libertarianism, unfortunately, is as intrinsically political in one
direction as "censorship is awesome as long as it's the good guys doing it"
is in the other. Power may flow from the barrel of a gun ultimately, but
downstream of that, it flows from control of communication. It is
/absolutely/ partisan, indeed even counterrevolutionary, to let everyone
have their say. At least where any significant number of people can hear
them. And that's where shadowbanning comes in.



On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 11:01 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >…Even the full-on "bluecheck Bolsheviks" should be p*ssed at the previous
> management if they spent any significant advertising dollars chasing an
> echo chamber full of 'bot accounts.
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> >…[I just read that sentence back and realized how bizarrely
> cyberpunk-science-fiction yet completely predictable this above sentence
> would have seemed if you sent it back through time to this list in the
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> Thanks for that Darin.  So why not just have all the same blue-check
> Bolsheviks write software to do their job?  Let them know they can still
> moderate to their hearts’ content but they must write the software to do it
> rather than capricious human judgment, then make the software public.
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> Then, we can download their moderation software and use it for other
> platforms, such as this one.
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> I heard so many Twitter users say they were being shadow banned, well OK
> then, this should make it to where all that is visible, ja?  Let sunlight
> be the disinfectant.  That’s the libertarian way: nothing political there,
> ja?  Is it partisan to let everyone have their say?  I think not.
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