It's weird you got downvoted; you're correct, that chat bot was spewing hate speech at full blast, it was on the news everywhere. (For the uninformed: it didn't get unplugged for being "PR-unfriendly", it got unplugged because nearly every response turned into racism and misogyny in a matter of hours)
Putin accused Ukrainians of being nazis and racists as justification to invade them. The problem with censorship is your definition of a nazi is different than mine and different than Putin's, and at some end of the spectrum we're going to be enabling fascism by allowing censorship of almost any sort, since we'll never agree on what should be censored, and then it just gets abused.
It's weird you got downvoted; you're correct, that chat bot was spewing hate speech at full blast, it was on the news everywhere. (For the uninformed: it didn't get unplugged for being "PR-unfriendly", it got unplugged because nearly every response turned into racism and misogyny in a matter of hours)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)#Initial_release
That only happened because Twitter trolls were tricking it into parroting back that kind of hate.
Ah so you love censorship when you agree with it?
Is any time any person (or company) can't say whatever they like with no consequences censorship to you?
Are you a free speech absolutist? Is it free speech to falsely yell "Fire!" in a crowded theatre?
That's not censorship, that's basic hygiene.
So you decide, then, how convenient for you.
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endlessly amusing to see people attempt paradox of tolerance gotchas decade after decade after decade. did you mean to post this on slashdot
Endlessly amusing to see people advocate that the modern web communities are better than the old. Take me back to 2009 internet please I beg.
Free speech is a liberal value. Nazis don't get to hide behind it every time they're called out.
Helping prevent racism and Nazi propaganda at scale protects actual people.
Censoring tiananmen square or the January 6th insurrection just helps consolidate power for authoritarians to make people's lives worse.
let people decide for themselves what is propaganda and what is not. you are not to do it!
Putin accused Ukrainians of being nazis and racists as justification to invade them. The problem with censorship is your definition of a nazi is different than mine and different than Putin's, and at some end of the spectrum we're going to be enabling fascism by allowing censorship of almost any sort, since we'll never agree on what should be censored, and then it just gets abused.
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