tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post367941558808284371..comments2024-03-16T18:42:21.178-07:00Comments on DSHR's Blog: Regulating Social Media: Part 1David.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-18644502288556972142020-02-18T07:49:02.708-08:002020-02-18T07:49:02.708-08:00Don’t Use the Word ‘Did’ or a Dumb Anti-Piracy Com...<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/dont-use-the-word-did-or-a-dumb-anti-piracy-company-will-delete-you-from-google-200216/" rel="nofollow"><i>Don’t Use the Word ‘Did’ or a Dumb Anti-Piracy Company Will Delete You From Google</i></a> reports on yet another example of how impossible content moderation at scale is.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-40907044044722394772020-02-07T09:06:19.979-08:002020-02-07T09:06:19.979-08:00Kate Cox shows hw devoted Facebook is to enforcing...Kate Cox shows hw devoted Facebook is to enforcing "civility norms" in <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/facebook-removes-anti-semitic-page-ten-months-after-state-ag-asks/" rel="nofollow"><i>What it takes to get a hate page off Facebook: A letter from the state AG</i></a>:<br /><br />"Almost a year after state officials formally asked Facebook to take action to remove a racist and anti-Semitic group page, the globe-spanning social network has finally taken the page down.<br /><br />The offices of New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy acknowledged Facebook's action against the page, "Rise Up Ocean County," in a <a href="https://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases20/pr20200205a.html" rel="nofollow">joint announcement</a> Wednesday."David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-86494735498656256632020-02-03T15:45:19.226-08:002020-02-03T15:45:19.226-08:00After reading Dominic Rushe's $15bn a year: Yo...After reading Dominic Rushe's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/03/youtube-ad-revenue-google-alphabet-shares" rel="nofollow"><i>$15bn a year: YouTube reveals its ad revenues for the first time</i></a> I need to correct the arithmetic above:<br /><br />"assuming 30K hours/hour uploaded, each uploaded hour "earned" about $57. Out of that needs to come the unknown costs of ingesting, storing, and streaming the content, and Google's 22% margins. But it looks like they could afford a $15/hour minimum wage with 50% overheads to watch the incoming videos (and do a lousy job of moderation)."David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-75682593829465156402020-02-01T16:44:35.910-08:002020-02-01T16:44:35.910-08:00Because, under the DMCA, no-one is penalized for f...Because, under the DMCA, no-one is penalized for false copyright claims except the victims (who have no effective recourse), we get ludicrous situations like the one described by Timothy Geigner in <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200129/13563143825/youtube-takes-down-live-stream-over-copyright-claimbefore-stream-even-starts.shtml" rel="nofollow"><i>YouTube Takes Down Live Stream Over Copyright Claim...Before Stream Even Starts</i></a>. The claimant was CNN, who emerged unscathed, despite claiming copyright over something they had never seen, and which would have contained none of their copyright material had they seen it.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-29407420189552152020-02-01T09:04:25.548-08:002020-02-01T09:04:25.548-08:00Anna Merlan reports on another platform totally in...Anna Merlan reports on another platform totally incapable of enforcing its "social norms" in <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epgvm7/airbnb-scam-how-to-tell" rel="nofollow"><i>Here Are the Most Common Airbnb Scams Worldwide</i></a>:<br /><br />"At the end of October, former VICE senior staff writer Allie Conti shared her story of a disastrous vacation to Chicago, where she <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb" rel="nofollow"><b>tumbled into a nationwide scam</b></a> run by a prolific grifter (or grifters), which exploited Airbnb’s loosely written rules and even looser enforcement.<br /><br />Conti’s investigation revealed a platform with serious problems policing itself, and sought to uncover the people who’d figured out ways to profit from that disarray. She ultimately traced the nexus of her own scam experience back to a company that used fake profiles and reviews to conceal a variety of wrongs—from last-minute property switches, to units with sawdust on the floor and holes in the wall."David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.com