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• On the post: The Scunthorpe Problem, And Why AI Is Not A Silver Bullet For Moderating Platform Content At Scale

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2018 @ 12:57pm

  I have a cousin with the spampata last name

  I never get responses when I email her. Maybe I should check my spam folder.

• On the post: Grandstanding Idiots In Congress Attack Social Media For Censoring Too Much And Too Little Without Understanding Anything

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2018 @ 10:05am

  this isn't even a representative issue, this is *florida*

  There's a reason people make fun of Florida constantly. This is about average for Florida (Gaetz)

• On the post: Copyright As Censorship: FIFA's Overaggressive Copyright Takedowns Target Fans Celebrating And Pussy Riot Protesting

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2018 @ 10:45am

  Re: Re: I happily follow their request.

  FIFA is just helping block your view of two "Soccer balls" being moved rapidly back and forth by someone named "Richard" towards a "goal".

• On the post: Comcast's Wireless Service Will Charge You More To Stream HD Video

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2018 @ 09:31am

  480p "good enough for mobile"

  AYFKM?
  
  This is like saying gaming through a postage stamp is plenty. Things look *awful* on 720p, let alone 480p when the average mobile screen is 1080p or above (many are 2k/4k).

• On the post: Why Is Hollywood Pushing A Totally Bogus Push Poll Trying To Undermine The Internet?

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2018 @ 07:46am

  my favorite is question 7

  It should actually be *HOLLYWOOD*. That's the best part, not google/facebook/etc.
  
  7. Do you believe that services like HOLLYWOOD should take greater responsibility for the use of their platforms to facilitate the illegal distribution of creative copyrighted movies, television shows, music, photography, and books?

• On the post: EU Commission Says Social Media Companies Must Take Down 'Terrorist Content' Within One Hour

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2018 @ 09:49am

  Re:

  The real reason isn't quite the timeframe or terrorism. It's shifting the accountability to being an afterthought.

• On the post: EU Commission Says Social Media Companies Must Take Down 'Terrorist Content' Within One Hour

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2018 @ 09:42am

  So why is this only for "Social media content"?

  If this was so magically important; wouldn't they be just as concerned with text messaging or newspaper or tv media?

• On the post: It's Time to Talk About Internet Companies' Content Moderation Operations

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2018 @ 01:41pm

  I received an app to do moderation jobs through lionbridge

  I know nothing about it aside from they tried to pay people very poorly to basically apply subjective rules to google search. One position was called social media internet assessor (aka moderator), and another was explicitly focused on mobile search. Both were focused on accuracy, not speed - which makes sense given the number of people they must be hiring.
  
  That being said, it's subjective accuracy and was basically relying on human tuning and they were clearly targeting the ability to pay people a very low income to moderate.

• On the post: 'Tis The Season To Fail To Catch Contraband And Explosive Devices At TSA Checkpoints

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2017 @ 10:32am

  it's laughable

  I don't even bother trying to follow their restrictions on sizing of materials anymore, and about 1 in 10 trips they find something in my luggage to confiscate (normal toothpaste! OMG!) etc.
  
  I wish flying didn't involve the TSA, because the Theater of Security in Aviation is as much a failure as it's ever been.

• On the post: Judge Ignores Congress, Pretends SOPA Exists, Orders Site Blocking Of Sci-Hub

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2017 @ 04:47am

  uh, isn't ACS basically a part of Elsevier?

  At a minimum they certainly are at least working with them and featured by them, and publish articles to elsevier.
  
  http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ac00028a712
  
  https://www.elsevier.com/exhibitions-update/acs-fall-2016
  
  Sounds like they're just a puppet for elsevier at this point.

• On the post: Showtime Won't Explain Why Its Website Was Hijacking User Browsers To Covertly Mine Cryptocurrency

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2017 @ 10:49am

  Re: Interesting idea though

  No.
  
  "We've turned this on guys, please do it" is no less acceptable than "...."
  
  That's a "please help us fix business model problems and oh give us more $$"

• On the post: The Scale Of Moderating Facebook: It Turns Off 1 Million Accounts Every Single Day

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2017 @ 11:16am

  Re: Per usual, more than a bit of context left out

  This is no fault other than explicitly facebook. There are lots of anti-bot measures they could be doing and naturally do not have an interest in doing (because facebook's total user count would plummet).
  
  I wish I could find posts about analysis of how much of FB is bots but it is a significant amount.
  
  I'd hope people would realize that lack of action on preventing bots goes hand in hand with lack of quality in understanding things like filtering/free speech.

• On the post: Titan Note Continues Trying To Sell Its Questionable Device; Its Own Actions Keep Raising More Questions

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 24 May, 2017 @ 08:10pm

  why do people trust indiegogo when indiegogo is not relaible?

  Even techdirt themselves talked about how indiegogo is not kickstarter and doesn't even vaguely check that a project is legitimate before taking your money.
  
  So, surprise?

• On the post: NY Judge Says Prior Restraint Is America's Best Defense Against Internet 'Chaos'

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2017 @ 09:12am

  this read as if his name was Tikun Olam

  I would have been seriously cracking up if that were the case...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikkun_olam

• On the post: Why Is The Hotel Industry More Focused On Harming Airbnb Than Improving Their Own Product?

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2017 @ 11:30am

  I worked at a major hotel

  I worked for one of the major hotels. They pretty much acknowledged they "can't compete with airbnb/boutique hotels". That was verbatim from a company status meeting for all employees.
  
  This corporate lobbying needs to be prevented.

• On the post: Mashable Says You Shouldn't Own What You Buy Because You Might Hurt Yourself

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2017 @ 10:24am

  Re: In summary

  baby/bathwater

• On the post: Mashable Says You Shouldn't Own What You Buy Because You Might Hurt Yourself

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2017 @ 09:38am

  mashable has always been this way

  Mashable has never been anything more than a clickbait/entertainment site.
  
  Did someone actually expect that Mashable would be a site that has actual intelligent and useful discourse?

• On the post: Windows DRM: Now An (Unwitting) Ally In Efforts To Expose Anonymous Tor Users

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2017 @ 09:57am

  Re: Yet another reason...

  Yep, even more confirmation that anyone who wants privacy should be using Tails ( https://tails.boum.org/ )

• On the post: Trump Muzzles Federal Employees; Reporters Start Asking For Leaks

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2017 @ 08:22pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  This is untrue. Gerrymandering ensures that your vote doesn't always count, because even if you vote 99% democrat and 1% republicans vote in your area the repub will get the house seat.

• On the post: Snowden's Favorite Email Service Returns, With 'Trustful,' 'Cautious,' And 'Paranoid' Modes

  

  Designerfx ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2017 @ 09:10pm

  Re: Groklaw coming back?

  I've emailed her in the past; I didn't get an impression she was willing to come back after having Maureen O'Gara personally attack her and privacy etc. :/

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