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Twitter suspends academic who quoted feminist STEM research https://boingboing.net/2018/09/29/platform-censorship.html #nationalcoalitionagainstcensorship #platformcensorship #dolphininatunanet #scholarship #moderation #webtheory #Business #twitter #cda230 #gender #Post
Twitter suspends academic who quoted feminist STEM research

MIT Comparative Media Studies researcher/instructor Chris Peterson is an adrent supporter of the Math Prize for Girls, and as part of his work with the organization, he’s learned about the wa…

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feedSep 27, 2018
Hate-speech detection algorithms are trivial to fool https://boingboing.net/2018/09/27/ha-ha-only-serious.html #adversarialexamples #platformcensorship #computerscience #machinelearning #happymutants #scholarship #security #bigtech #cda230 #Post #AI #ml
Hate-speech detection algorithms are trivial to fool

In All You Need is “Love”: Evading Hate Speech Detection, a Finnish-Italian computer science research team describe their research on evading hate-speech detection algorithms; their work will be pr…

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feedSep 26, 2018
Want the platforms to police bad speech and fake news? The copyright wars want a word with you. https://boingboing.net/2018/09/26/doomed-to-repeat-it.html #platformcensorship #harassment #monopolism #Copyfight #bigtech #cda230 #Post #eff
Want the platforms to police bad speech and fake news? The copyright wars want a word with you.

There are lots of calls for the platforms to police the bad speech on their platform — disinformation and fake news; hate speech and harassment, extremist content and so on — and while …

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