[HN Gopher] I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine
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       I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine
        
       Author : hker
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2021-02-23 22:05 UTC (54 minutes ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.protocol.com)
        
       | kypro wrote:
       | It would be interesting if someone from China could comment on
       | censorship in China. Is there a fraction of people who agrees
       | with it or is almost it universally disapproved of?
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       | Some of these arguments for censorship made in this article sound
       | eerily similar to how we justify censorship in the West.
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       | > Our role was to make sure that low-level content moderators
       | could find "harmful and dangerous content" as soon as possible.
       | 
       | Without context this could apply to any Western social media
       | platform. Of course in the West its companies not politicians who
       | call the shots, but the language to justify the actions is
       | certainly similar.
       | 
       | I'm not trying to equate Western censorship to Chinese
       | censorship, but in the West it's certainly fair to say many
       | people are happy and even welcoming of censorship - is the same
       | in China?
        
         | aaomidi wrote:
         | Not China, but in Iran, everyone fucking hates it.
        
       | mrtweetyhack wrote:
       | thanks asshole
        
       | arbitrage wrote:
       | Well, thanks, buddy.
        
       | yorwba wrote:
       | Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26192988
        
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