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Every year, millions of images, videos and posts that allegedly contain terrorist or violent extremist content are removed from social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter. A key force behind these takedowns is the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), an industry-led initiative that seeks to "prevent terrorists and violent extremists from exploiting digital platforms."
[...] Hashes are digital "fingerprints" of content that companies use to identify and remove content from their platforms. They are essentially unique, and allow for easy identification of specific content. When an image is identified as "terrorist content," it is tagged with a hash and entered into a database, allowing any future uploads of the same image to be easily identified.
This is exactly what the GIFCT initiative aims to do: Share a massive database of alleged 'terrorist' content, contributed voluntarily by companies, amongst members of its coalition. The database collects 'hashes', or unique fingerprints, of alleged 'terrorist', or extremist and violent content, rather than the content itself. GIFCT members can then use the database to check in real time whether content that users want to upload matches material in the database. While that sounds like an efficient approach to the challenging task of correctly identifying and taking down terrorist content, it also means that one single database might be used to determine what is permissible speech, and what is taken down—across the entire Internet.
Countless examples have proven that it is very difficult for human reviewers—and impossible for algorithms—to consistently get the nuances of activism, counter-speech, and extremist content itself right. The result is that many instances of legitimate speech are falsely categorized as terrorist content and removed from social media platforms. Due to the proliferation of the GIFCT database, any mistaken classification of a video, picture or post as 'terrorist' content echoes across social media platforms, undermining users' right to free expression on several platforms at once. And that, in turn, can have catastrophic effects on the Internet as a space for memory and documentation.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Friday August 28 2020, @05:10PM (13 children)
with GNU MediaGoblin
https://mediagoblin.org/ [mediagoblin.org]
Just for yourself, your family, your friends, your classmates, friends of your friends, your clan, your street gang, your village.
Focus on those who care about you.
Don't bother to pursue impact on the rest of planet, most planetary population does not care about you at all.
Keep full control, trust, freedom and responsibility for yourself. It's yours, you decide.
If done professionally enough, you may even end with something like that one https://storyfire.com/ [storyfire.com]
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday August 28 2020, @05:18PM (5 children)
I had a similar thought. Just use a different platform. Nothing to worry about until the ISP barges in, with a lawful warrant, of course!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @05:34PM (4 children)
Build your own internet, problem solved :D
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday August 28 2020, @05:40PM (3 children)
Don't underestimate the power of sneakernet! Or the power of a fully laden station wagon hurtling down the highway at 70 mph.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 28 2020, @07:39PM (2 children)
Station wagons are hard to find these days. You've got to update to SUV, preferably to ESUV. 'Cause if you're not electric, you're a neanderthal.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @11:13PM (1 child)
Oh please! In your neck of the woods, it has to be a Trans-Am, with Smokey on his tail...
(Score: 3, Touché) by looorg on Saturday August 29 2020, @01:25PM
Smokey will never catch the Bandit.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday August 28 2020, @05:37PM (4 children)
"Story Fire" yet another good reason why I almost never click on random links posted in the comments . . .
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Friday August 28 2020, @08:26PM
That one is not a random link, I found it yesterday, here, in a submission queue.
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @10:56PM
Not pressing all random links is censorship man! Free the freedom links
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday August 29 2020, @03:01AM (1 child)
I went and looked. It's basically another Bitchute.
I've come to rather like Bitchute.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @07:23PM
yeah, except it's closed source and uses a centralized interface. we need FOSS, p2p replacements for everything and then these controllers can fuck off.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @07:14PM
The issue with your solution is that it's only available to moderately technical people. I had a Mediagoblin instance for a while, and now I use something similar. But my wife doesn't care enough to learn what she needs to run her own, and neither do our neighbors, our friends, my brothers, my parents, etc... Free expression has little practical value when it's only an option for a tiny fraction of the population.
My wild and probably fruitless hope is that Beaker Browser or something inspired by it is the answer - it's a FOSS, electron-based full web browser that allows you to use regular websites but also has native support for sharing content using a decentralized, bittorrent-style system they call "hyperdrive". I'm never going to get brother to set up his own MediaGoblin instance. But I could probably convince him to try Beaker today. I haven't suggested it yet because Beaker is in beta.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @08:57AM
The problem is almost zero visitors in.
When the Internet was about websites, links were made because they were sources or were in common with page topics, any site could be properly processed and accessed from search engine.
When it's about advertisers, if you don't pay for expensive SEO, you will not get any entries. We're just back in 19th century publishing model.