What's going on here is that unrelated libertarian principles are being recoded as issues of free speech. All of sudden preventing algorithmic harm becomes leftist censorship, and the culture war is used as a bulwark against government regulation of discriminatory technologies.

"Algorithmic decisions about parole, loan approvals, interest rates, program admissions, insurance premiums, security clearance, etc. that depend on race and ethnicity? That's not discrimination, it's *speech*."

I have a patient w/a severe life limiting condition & its most feared complication.

And yet the biggest barriers to good health for him?

SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH.

All of the scientific advances in the world mean nothing if society can’t provide for our most basic needs.

Prediction: however people try to settle the CW debate… the CW will evolve into something with many purposes in different contexts. You can’t give people a special text box on the internet and not expect them to do all kinds of stuff with it.

(I think the Content Warning will be one of a variety of uses, tho, so that should keep long-time users happy. It’s a nice thing to have.)