On 01/10/2022 12.00, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Came across yet another crop of articles recently which painfully highlight the problems with having social-media companies manage their own moderation.
It has been a while since I studied Latin (the pain has (almost) receded) but surely describing, or even imagining, such organisations as watchmen/guards/custodians/caretakers, is the larger part of the problem - yet this is exactly our government's attitude: 'we can trust them to do right...'! See also: - New Zealander's personal data held by government agencies is quite possibly stored 'in the cloud' off-shore and by organisations primarily subject to other jurisdictions, rather than New Zealand's Privacy or other applicable legislation. - school children whose 'education' is being tracked, similarly with no opportunity to opt-out. Question: Do these corporates' operations better-align with 'the American Dream' or the Kiwi sense of 'fairness'? Of the two, who is 'dreaming' most/worst? -- Regards =dn