{"id":44558,"date":"2019-03-18T08:25:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T13:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44558"},"modified":"2019-03-18T08:25:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T13:25:27","slug":"social-media-companies-struggle-to-help-censors-keep-us-in-the-dark%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44558","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Companies \u201cStruggle\u201d to Help Censors Keep us in the Dark\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/03\/18\/social-media-companies-struggle-to-help-censors-keep-us-in-the-dark\/\">Social Media Companies \u201cStruggle\u201d to Help Censors Keep us in the Dark<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>According to CNN Business, \u201cFacebook, YouTube and Twitter struggle to deal with New Zealand shooting video.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDeal with\u201d is code for \u201ccensor on demand by governments and activist organizations who oppose public access to information that hasn\u2019t first been thoroughly vetted for conformity to their preferred narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you really need to see first-person video footage of an attacker murdering 49 worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe not. Chances are pretty good you didn\u2019t even want to. I suspect that many of us who did (I viewed what appeared to be a partial copy before YouTube deleted it) would rather we could un-see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But whether or not we watch it should be up to us, not those governments and activists. Social media companies should enable our choices, not suppress our choices at the censors\u2019 every whim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube had been primary news sources in 1915, would they have permitted us to view footage&nbsp; (rare, as film was in its early days)&nbsp; of New Zealanders\u2019 desperate fight at Gallipoli?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about the attack on Pearl Harbor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The assassination of president John F. Kennedy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second plane hitting the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucinda Creighton of the Counter Extremism Project complains to CNN that the big social media firms aren\u2019t really \u201ccooperating and acting in the best interest of citizens to remove this content.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CEP claims that it \u201ccounter[s] the narrative of extremists\u201d and&nbsp; works to \u201creveal the extremist threat.\u201d&nbsp; How does demanding that something be kept hidden \u201ccounter\u201d or \u201creveal\u201d it? How is it in \u201cthe best of interest of citizens\u201d to only let those citizens see what Lucinda Creighton thinks they should be allowed to see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Media Companies \u201cStruggle\u201d to Help Censors Keep us in the Dark According to CNN Business, \u201cFacebook, YouTube and Twitter struggle to deal with New Zealand shooting video.\u201d \u201cDeal with\u201d is code for \u201ccensor on demand by governments and activist organizations who oppose public access to information that hasn\u2019t first been thoroughly vetted for conformity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,5995,5493,1493,4002,1169,765,11716,819,3931],"class_list":["post-44558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-choice","tag-counterpunch","tag-facebook","tag-new-zealand","tag-social-media","tag-surveillance","tag-thomas-knapp","tag-twitter","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44559,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44558\/revisions\/44559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}