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Dear journalists, venture capitalists, TikTok teens and other ThinkFluencers: before hot-taking on how to regulate online speech, please consider reading some of the foundational work in this area.
Start with @Klonick's groundbreaking overview:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2937985
Start with @Klonick's groundbreaking overview:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2937985
Follow with @daphnehk on the overall regulatory structure of online speech: https://www.hoover.org/research/who-do-you-sue
Read @jkosseff's book before ever typing 2-3-0 on your keyboard: https://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Six-Words-That-Created-Internet/dp/1501714414/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540389248&sr=8-1&keywords=kosseff
Read @evelyndouek on the risks of coordinated moderation: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/the-rise-of-content-cartels
Pre-order @jilliancyork to understand the global human-rights context:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3772-silicon-values
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3772-silicon-values
...and please base your opinions on empirical work:
http://eipartnership.net
http://io.stanford.edu
http://www.cip.uw.edu
http://www.digitalsherlocks.org/ourwork
http://graphika.com
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/social-media-and-democracy/E79E2BBF03C18C3A56A5CC393698F117
http://eipartnership.net
http://io.stanford.edu
http://www.cip.uw.edu
http://www.digitalsherlocks.org/ourwork
http://graphika.com
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/social-media-and-democracy/E79E2BBF03C18C3A56A5CC393698F117
If you find yourself typing one of these phrases:
"This was a simple decision that should have been taken years ago"
"A private platform should be able to do whatever they want"
"This violates the First Amendment"
"Blockchain..."
You might want to start at the top again.
"This was a simple decision that should have been taken years ago"
"A private platform should be able to do whatever they want"
"This violates the First Amendment"
"Blockchain..."
You might want to start at the top again.
When you are done with the real experts, you can fall asleep to this talk I gave on balancing all of the difficulty equities here:
A much more thoughtful list: https://twitter.com/daphnehk/status/1347958005816381443
Some more suggestions from folks... for the experiences of abuse victims, @sarahjeong's Internet of Garbage: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/28/17777330/internet-of-garbage-book-sarah-jeong-online-harassment
On disparate impact of algorithms and moderation by @safiyanoble https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/
@TarletonG's Custodians of the Internet on how decisions are made and the impact on moderators:
http://tarletongillespie.org/Gillespie_CUSTODIANS_print.pdf
http://tarletongillespie.org/Gillespie_CUSTODIANS_print.pdf
as well as @CaseyNewton's reporting: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona
Before she was famous for her COVID work, @zeynep wrote one of the best books on government/citizen/platform power. Unfortunately, all too relevant in the age of elected autocrats. https://www.twitterandteargas.org/
Early work from @rmack (2012!) https://twitter.com/rmack/status/1348292027306434562
And three important works from @daniellecitron https://twitter.com/daniellecitron/status/1348305552192004097
