Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic; What Does It Mean to Ban Alex Jones?
"In banning the Infowars page, Facebook took the next logical step in
restricting access to Infowars content, but it still hasn’t outright
banned the domain, and it has not disclosed how the News Feed algorithm
is dealing with URLs from Infowars.com.
All
of which is to say: There are many kinds of bans, and they each
represent a different tool technology companies can use to police
speech. Platforms can weaken the distribution of content they don’t like. They can ban the discovery of content they don’t like, as Apple has with Jones’s podcasts. Platforms can decline to host content they don’t like, as YouTube and Facebook have with InfoWars videos and pages, respectively. Or platforms can ban the presence of content they don’t like, regardless of where it is hosted or discovered."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Wednesday, August 8, 2018
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