Incidents like this are common enough, that this is what the system does. If it’s AI, or rogue mods, or zuck himself, it doesn’t matter because this is what the system is doing - and if this wasn’t an acceptable outcome to meta the system would be changed.
I like that, and there are definitely situations where that describes what’s happening better. But I feel like adding intent changes it a bit. Some of the worst things exist not because of intent but because of indifference. E.g. nobody wants to destroy the planet, but a lot of people don’t give a shit if what they do happens to do that.
If the platform is filled with the same category of political speech, it directly flies in the face of the narrative that this type of political speech is being banned and that there's a chilling effect. You're taking a single anecdote that requires ignorance of all all surrounding evidence to prove a point that you want to prove.
You appear to have an overwhelming desire to see this obvious outlier as indicative of a larger pattern that clearly does not exist. A conclusion this article clearly alludes to and wants you to come to but doesn't do on it's on because it's so provably incorrect.
Just because this administration has done something in the past doesn't mean that every time that thing happens, this administration is responsible for it.
I didn't blame the administration at all. I don't even think this is specifically about political speech. You're ascribing a lot of beliefs to me that I haven't expressed, and assuming we have a similar experience of social media which flies in the face of everything we know about filter-bubbles and algorithmic content.
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The purpose of a system is what it does.
Incidents like this are common enough, that this is what the system does. If it’s AI, or rogue mods, or zuck himself, it doesn’t matter because this is what the system is doing - and if this wasn’t an acceptable outcome to meta the system would be changed.
I'm a fan of a slightly different version of this that I heard years ago:
"Just because something isn't working as advertised, doesn't mean it's not working as intended."
I like that, and there are definitely situations where that describes what’s happening better. But I feel like adding intent changes it a bit. Some of the worst things exist not because of intent but because of indifference. E.g. nobody wants to destroy the planet, but a lot of people don’t give a shit if what they do happens to do that.
How do you know it isn't being changed?
I don’t. But given it didn’t change the last n times it happened, i’m doubtful.
Whats makes you think it is being changed?
When you say "it", what are you referring to?
I don't know anything about the internal workings of meta to confidently state that situations like this do or don't cause internal change.
What I can say is scores of people on Meta's various platforms are saying very negative things about the US administration and are not being banned.
"it" = people being banned for innocuous things.
Just because you don't always get banned for political speech, doesn't mean random political speech bans don't have a chilling effect.
If the platform is filled with the same category of political speech, it directly flies in the face of the narrative that this type of political speech is being banned and that there's a chilling effect. You're taking a single anecdote that requires ignorance of all all surrounding evidence to prove a point that you want to prove.
You appear to have an overwhelming desire to see this obvious outlier as indicative of a larger pattern that clearly does not exist. A conclusion this article clearly alludes to and wants you to come to but doesn't do on it's on because it's so provably incorrect.
Just because this administration has done something in the past doesn't mean that every time that thing happens, this administration is responsible for it.
I didn't blame the administration at all. I don't even think this is specifically about political speech. You're ascribing a lot of beliefs to me that I haven't expressed, and assuming we have a similar experience of social media which flies in the face of everything we know about filter-bubbles and algorithmic content.