Technology

Maybe this will lead to a future where Stochastic Terrorism isn't a protected activity?

As much as I believe it is a breeding ground for right wing extremism, it's a little strange that 4chan is being lumped in with these other sites for a suit like this. As far as I know, 4chan just promotes topics based on the number of people posting to it, and otherwise doesn't employ an algorithm at all. Kind of a different beast to the others, who have active algorithms trying to drive engagement at any cost.

Tonight we investigate the hacker known as 4chan. More at 9.

Can we stop letting the actions of a few bad people be used to curtail our freedom on platforms we all use.

I don't want the internet to end up being policed by corporate AIs and poorly implemented bots (looking at you auto-mod).

The internet is already a husk of what it used to be, what it could be. It used to be personal, customisable... Dare I say it; messy and human...

.... maybe that was serving a need that now people feel alienated from. Now we live as corporate avatars who risk being banned every time we comment anywhere.

It's tiresome.

It’s ALWAYS someone else’s fault.

What an excellent presedent to set cant possibly see how this is going to become authoritarian. Ohh u didnt report someone ur also guilty cant see any problems with this.

Are the platforms guilty or are the users that supplied the radicalized content guilty? Last I checked, most of the content on YouTube, Facebook and Reddit is not generated by the companies themselves.