What is amazing is how there is no way to recover from all these algorithmic banning. I'm getting banned on Twitter every other day from following anyone because I follow a lot of academics. It's all legitimate but algos detected some pattern and I'm now toast. Twitter provides exactly zero ways to report this or fix this. They simply don't care if some monority users suffer. We see same things when Google disables account and you get locked out from your electronic life.
I used to think working with governments is very hard. Getting support in places like DMVs and passport renewals is super hard. But never thought so futuristic tech world will be so much more arcane and worse than even the governments.
I had a friend call me–practically in tears–because YouTube removed his highest viewed video game montage for violating their hate speech policy. Context: WWII tank game playing as the Germans, usually with some old german language folk song in the background. It's algorithmically removed and most likely algorithmically reviewed upon appeal, and there's basically no recourse for him. Meanwhile, similar videos by other creators have their content left up.
I have to remind him that, unfortunately, YouTube has no shortage of content and absolutely nothing to lose from false flagging a subset of it, compared to the pushback they get for letting something truly horrible slip through the cracks.
I used to think working with governments is very hard. Getting support in places like DMVs and passport renewals is super hard. But never thought so futuristic tech world will be so much more arcane and worse than even the governments.