On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 9:22 AM Adam Bowie <a...@adambowie.co.uk> wrote:
> The interesting things is that these companies tend to be quite at good at > keeping some things off their sites - notably porn. Sure they also end up > banning Renaissance paintings, iconic photographs from the Vietnam war, and > mothers feeding their babies. But the algorithms seem reasonably good at > identifying bare skin. > So, I feel like this actually supports my side of the argument. When FB censors classic art, historically important photographs and images of breastfeeding mothers, I do feel like it is an unjustified limitation on free speech. If they want to ban porn fine, but put in the effort to make at least some distinction between that and the other important and non-pornographic representations of human nudity. And since these are fuzzy categories, be prepared to err on the side of allowing a little bit of porn so we don’t lose important aspects of humanity. Again, I do insist this is about free speech, though it if helps you can read that as “culture of free speech” or “free speech values” if it helps distinghiush it from the First Amendment. The US Constitution guarantees speech free of government interference, but it does not have a monopoly on the values and culture of free expression, which is a fundamental characteristic of the American Idea. I know that is not true of our European cousins (I once had a long conversation with a British colleague who scolded me on the American insistence on making a fetish of free expression, which I took as a huge compliment). I actually have not read any serious source who argues that banning Jones violates the First Amendment so I am not sure why we are hearing this being disputed so much. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
