KEKKING MY FAT ASS OFF, ANYBODY NEED A JOB?

Reddit Wants an ‘Anti-Evil’ Moderator to ‘Handle Sensitive Issues’

The front page of the internet wants to fight evil. But is it actually evil?

Reddit is opening a new office in Ireland, and looking to recruit an “Anti-Evil” moderator to take down content that breaks the rules. Job responsibilities include: “Reviewing reported content and assess for policy compliance quickly and effectively.” Another requirement includes the ability to “handle sensitive issues.” Will the job also require handling sitewide bans on links or shadowbanning any mention of certain individuals?

“Come for the cats, stay for the empathy,” the job listing stated … twice. Nothing was mentioned about protecting freedom of speech.

Reddit has been closed-mouth about its Anti-Evil standards. Someone posted a question to Mod Support asking, “Can the admins share what standard the Anti-Evil Operations use to remove posts and ban users?” The post was locked and removed.

Users can only speculate as to what Reddit’s definition of “Anti-Evil” is, but an interview with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian from 2018 might shed some light on the concept. Ohanian mentioned that the platform had an “Anti-Evil” software that helped remove content based on harassment policies. He also said he felt that the banning of Infowars from other platforms was a “milestone in the evolution of social media and the policing of content.”

In March 2019, a Reddit moderator pointed out that certain names of people running for office seemed to be auto-filtered by the platform “regardless of the context.” A comment on the post from another moderator said that there were “sitewide” bans on certain links that were not allowed to be shared on Reddit.

The moderator gave an example of something that was “shadowbanned” on Reddit that made no sense. She said, “There are some weird reddit-wide filters that I'm starting to notice that don't make any sense from a spam-control standpoint. For example, https:// exodus-privacy.eu.org (if you remove the space) is automatically filtered; not just for posts but in comments as well. And that's a nonprofit site for investigating privacy concerns in android apps.”

Reddit recently received $300 million from the Chinese censorship technology company Tencent, which was responsible for building China’s great firewall. Seems like Chinese censorship might come for the cats and stay for the empathy.

SOURCE

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2019/05/09/reddit-wants-anti-evil-moderator-handle-sensitive-issues

And the deflection projection continues from the Democrats..stand-by…

Calls for answers over Trump administration's spying of family separation protests grow louder

Oregon U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has joined Massachusetts U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren in calling for answers over reports that the Department of Homeland Security was taking part in spying on hundreds of peaceful protests that took place last summer against the Trump administration’s family separation policy. “Peaceful demonstrations are protected under the First Amendment,” he wrote to both Homeland Security and the private cybersecurity company that carried out the spying, “and are crucial to a healthy democracy.”

Internal documents obtained by the American Immigration Council under the Freedom of Information Act showed that LookingGlass gathered information on last year’s rallies, including Facebook Event IDs and logistics such as time and location, which was then shared with Homeland Security officials, “who then distributed it within the Department and to outside law enforcement officials,” Warren’s letter stated.

She has called on the Homeland Security inspector general, the department’s watchdog, to open an investigation. Wyden seeks answers from both acting Homeland Security secretary Kevin McAleenan and LookingGlass’s leader, Chris Coleman. “Why did your company looking into activities specifically related to family separation policies?” he asks. “Why was this data shared with DHS?” It’s unclear if LookingGlass had an existing contract with the company, a question that Warren has specifically asked the inspector general to probe.

“Surveillance of protests—whether by the government, defense contractors, or unlawful vigilantes—can significantly chill this lawful, First Amendment-protected activity,” Wyden’s letters continue. “The restrictive effects of surveillance are further amplified for people who belong to communities that have long been over-policed and discriminated against by the state, particularly people of color.”

SOURCE

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1856465