Aren’t most Twitter accounts trying to
“manipulate” their audience? “Vote Republican!” “Buy my
album” “Send me money and I’ll unlock your files”
Twitter
Suspends Accounts Engaged in Manipulation
Twitter
this week announced the suspension of a total of 770 accounts for
“engaging in coordinated manipulation.”
The
suspensions were performed in two waves. One last week, when the
social networking platform purged 284 accounts, many of which
supposedly originated from Iran, and another this week, when 486 more
accounts were kicked for the same reason.
… The
report triggered reactions from large Internet companies, including
Facebook and Google. The former removed 652 pages, groups, and
accounts suspected of being tied to Russia and Iran, while the latter
blocked
39 YouTube channels
and
disabled six Blogger and 13 Google+ accounts.
I
imagine rich neighborhoods will tweak the algorithm to keep more
people in jail. And if anyone released re-offends, “Hey! The
computer made me release him!”
California
Becomes First State To End Cash Bail After 40-Year Fight
California will become the first state in the
nation to abolish bail for suspects awaiting trial under a sweeping
reform bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday.
An overhaul of the state's bail system has been in
the works for years, and became an inevitability earlier this year
when a California appellate court declared
the state's cash bail system unconstitutional. The new law goes
into effect in October 2019.
… Under the California law those arrested and
charged with a crime won't be putting up money or borrowing it from a
bail bond agent to obtain their release. Instead, local
courts will decide who to keep in custody and whom to
release while they await trial. Those decisions will be based
on an algorithm created by the courts in each
jurisdiction.
Reminds me of the fight Phil Zimmerman had to
publish PGP software. Same law. Same chance of the government
keeping these files from terrorists – ZERO. After all, nothing
will keep terrorist groups from doing exactly what Cody Wilson did.
After court
order, 3D-printed gun pioneer now sells pay-what-you-want CAD files
During what he called his first ever press
conference, Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson announced Tuesday
that he would continue to comply with a federal court order
forbidding him from internationally publishing CAD
files of firearms. Wilson said he would also begin selling
copies of his
3D-printed gun files for a "suggested price" of $10 each.
The files, crucially, will be transmitted to
customers "on a DD-branded flash drive" in the United
States. Wilson also mentioned looking into customer email and secure
download links.
Previously, Defense Distributed had given the
files away for free, globally.
Perspective. Words of hate.
Fanning the
Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime
Müller, Karsten and Schwarz, Carlo, Fanning the
Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime (May 21, 2018). Available
at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3082972
or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3082972
“This paper
investigates the link between social media and hate crime using
Facebook data. We study the case of Germany, where the recently
emerged right-wing party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has
developed a major social media presence. We show that right-wing
anti-refugee sentiment on
Facebook predicts violent crimes against refugees in
otherwise similar municipalities with higher social media usage. To
further establish causality, we exploit exogenous variation in major
internet and Facebook outages, which fully undo the correlation
between social media and hate crime. We further find that the effect
decreases with distracting news events; increases with user network
interactions; and does not hold for posts unrelated to refugees. Our
results suggest that social media can act as a propagation mechanism
between online hate speech and real-life violent crime.”
Perspective. Confirming a few speculations…
[Problems with the link?]
Using
Twitter to Visualize Polarization
Center
for Data Innovation – “MIT Technology Review has
created a set of visualizations that uses data about Twitter activity
to illustrate the polarization of political discourse in the United
States. The visualizations include multiple cluster maps
demonstrating that accounts
that follow each other tweet similar content. In
addition, diagrams show that the
most partisan accounts, which include bot accounts that
tweet hundreds of times a day, tweet
significantly more than accounts in the political center.
The visualizations also show the polarization of Turkish and Russian
accounts.”
My book would be: How to guarantee security!
No comments:
Post a Comment