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It's interesting how regularly US social media have these "oopsie" moderation [0]/copyright [1] "accidents".

Even more interesting when they openly admit to censoring content [2].

I wonder how much of that is actually "accident" and how much of it is just testing out boundaries how far they can go before it gets noticed too widely [3]?

[0] https://nypost.com/2021/03/24/twitter-censoring-detention-ce...

[1] https://juliareda.eu/2017/09/when-filters-fail/

[2] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/04/goog-n04.html

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37318031




Are you saying Google is, on it’s on volition, protecting the interests of some unknown red-state police chief?


Quit being prejudiced toward Native Americans, man.


It's like how people will make hurtful comments and suddenly change courses and claim it's "just a joke" if anyone calls them out on it.




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