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My friend in Germany told me their new law would make social media delete posts faster, and now I see it happening with art.
He said the NetzDG law would lead to over-blocking, and just last week an artist I follow had her political cartoon about a local election removed from a big platform for 'hate speech' when it clearly wasn't, which makes me wonder what other types of content are getting caught in these automated filters?
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riverhill12d ago
And that's exactly the problem with these automated systems, they don't actually understand context or satire. The artist's cartoon probably got flagged by some keyword scanner that saw "election" and "political" together and just nuked it without a human ever looking at it. Basically we're letting broken bots decide what counts as free speech now.
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perry.nancy1mo ago
Automated filters are about as smart as a toaster with a grudge. They see a political cartoon and just panic, deleting anything that might make their legal team twitch. Guess we're all supposed to just post pictures of our lunch now.
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the_jason1mo ago
Post pictures of our lunch" is exactly where we're headed. I got a meme taken down last week for "sensitive content" when it was just a guy looking confused at his phone. My fix was to just post the image in a reply to my own text post, filters seem to miss those more often.
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