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Paige RobertsIt feels good to be sitting here at #SAA18 listening to @zeynep talk about her #Ferguson and algorithms piece which helped inspire @documentnow four years ago.
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such incidents, would be buried in silence, though, of course, residents knew of their own ignored plight. Now, we expect documentation, live-feeds, streaming video, real time Tweets.
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this is what happened to “Ferguson” on Twitter
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what if Ferguson had started to bubble, but there was no Twitter to catch on nationally? Would it ever make it through the algorithmic filtering on Facebook? Maybe, but with no transparency to the decisions, I cannot be sure.
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algorithmic filtering, as a layer, controls what you see on the Internet
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Net neutrality (or lack thereof) will be yet another layer determining this. This will come on top of existing inequalities in attention, coverage and control.
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Ferguson is also a net neutrality issue. It’s also an algorithmic filtering issue. How the internet is run, governed and filtered is a human rights issue.
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12 Nov 14
John Love"How the internet is run, governed and filtered is a human rights issue." Hell yes! https://t.co/egVPVjM9Pv #Ferguson #NetNeutrality
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26 Sep 14
Reginold RoystonNet Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering and Ferguson
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15 Sep 14
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last night’s Ferguson “coverage” began when people started retweeting pictures of armored vehicles with heavily armored “robocops” on top of them, aiming their muzzle at the protesters, who seemed to number a few hundred. It was the fourth night after an unarmed black man, Michael Brown, was shot by a — still unnamed — police officer after a “jaywalking” incident. Witnesses say he died hands in the air, saying “don’t shoot”.
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Yes Ferguson will make news, another friend tweeted, because… well, here you go: Twitter.
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It seems like a world ago in which such places, and such incidents, would be buried in silence, though, of course, residents knew of their own ignored plight. Now, we expect documentation, live-feeds, streaming video, real time Tweets.
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Yesterday, national journalists were harassed, assaulted, arrested — without paperwork — while sitting quietly, recharging their phones at McDonald's — captured on video. Police positioned like snipers on top of armored, anti-mine vehicles kept their rifles — I have no idea what kind — aimed at protester within full view of national media, in broad daylight — pictured from multiple angles.
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This unfolded in real time on my social media feed which was pretty soon taken over by the topic — and yes, it’s a function of who I follow but I follow across the political spectrum, on purpose, and also globally.
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And this is what happened to “Ferguson” on Twitter:
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And then I switched to non net-neutral Internet to see what was up. I mostly have a similar a composition of friends on Facebook as I do on Twitter.
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Overnight, “edgerank” –or whatever Facebook’s filtering algorithm is called now — seems to have bubbled them up, probably as people engaged them more.
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This isn’t about Facebook per se—maybe it will do a good job, maybe not—but the fact that algorithmic filtering, as a layer, controls what you see on the Internet. Net neutrality (or lack thereof) will be yet another layer determining this. This will come on top of existing inequalities in attention, coverage and control.
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Twitter was also affected by algorithmic filtering. “Ferguson” did not trend in the US on Twitter but it did trend locally. [
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Algorithms have consequences.
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Mass media, typically, does not do very well covering chronic problems of unprivileged populations, poor urban blacks bear the brunt of this, but they are not alone.
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But maybe in the future, they don’t have to bother to arrest journalists and force cameras off. In California, legislation is being considered for “kill switches” in phones — a feature I honestly cannot imagine a good use for this in the United States.
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How the internet is run, governed and filtered is a human rights issue.
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It’s a clear example why net neutrality is a human rights issue; a free speech issue; and an issue of the voiceless being heard, on their own terms.
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The first night Mike Brown was shot, a friend asked on Twitter whether this would ever make the national news. It deserved to be national news as multiple significant, ongoing crises intersect at Ferguson: the loss of jobs which hit these communities worst; the militarization of US police departments; race; chronic multi-generational poverty.
But those very factors often make it less likely such places make the news, except as trouble spots. Places to be ignored. Avoided. “We” hear it only through official statements, often dismissing local concerns, painting them as looters, thugs, troublemakers.
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Would Ferguson be buried in algorithmic censorship?
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Net neutrality (or lack thereof) will be yet another layer determining this. This will come on top of existing inequalities in attention, coverage and control.
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Mass media, typically, does not do very well covering chronic problems of unprivileged populations, poor urban blacks bear the brunt of this, but they are not alone. Rural mostly white America, too, is almost always ignored except for the occasional “meth labs everywhere” story. But yesterday, many outlets were trying, except police didn’t let them. Chris Hayes says that police ordered satellite trucks off the area so that they could not go live from the area. Washington Post was only one outlet whose journalists were arrested — citizen journalists were targeted as well
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But maybe in the future, they don’t have to bother to arrest journalists and force cameras off. In California, legislation is being considered for “kill switches” in phones — a feature I honestly cannot imagine a good use for this in the United Stat
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But I’m not quite sure that without the neutral side of the Internet—the livestreams whose “packets” were fast as commercial, corporate and moneyed speech that travels on our networks, Twitter feeds which are not determined by an opaque corporate algorithms but my own choices,—we’d be having this conversation.
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How the internet is run, governed and filtered is a human rights issue.
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Sarah Booker LewisOn #Ferguson: "How the internet is run, governed and filtered is a human rights issue." http://t.co/waxtELEk3u
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19 Aug 14
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Sheri EdwardsLast retweet about #Ferguson, Twitter, and Facebook explained here http://t.co/MgMayNll2g via @nancyscola
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18 Aug 14
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Wessel van RensburgThis, from @zeynep, linking net neutrality and a ‘free’ internet with #Ferguson, is outstanding. https://t.co/vmOa8qyNpy
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17 Aug 14
Jan VlnasFerguson is about many things, starting first with race and policing in America.But it’s also about internet, net neutrality and algorithmic filtering.It’s a clear example of why…
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16 Aug 14
mikael böökThis isn’t about Facebook per se—maybe it will do a good job, maybe not—but the fact that algorithmic filtering, as a layer, controls what you see on the Internet. Net neutrality (or lack thereof) will be yet another layer determining this. This will come on top of existing inequalities in attention, coverage and control.
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paul jonesFascinating @zeynep piece: Ferguson shows how algorithms have consequences. Neutral-ish Twitter vs. filtered FB. http://t.co/BDj5lEVUAD
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Howard Rheingold"Ferguson is about many things, starting first with race and policing in America.
But it’s also about internet, net neutrality and algorithmic filtering.
It’s a clear example of why “saving the Internet”, as it often phrased, is not an abstract issue of concern only to nerds, Silicon Valley bosses, and few NGOs. It’s why “algorithmic filtering” is not a vague concern."
I wish more tech ppl would go. What happens to #Ferguson affects Ferguson https://t.co/QyoE3Xdj0f RT @jack #ferguson https://t.co/8izUGzlGKz
– Zeynep Tufekci (zeynep) http://twitter.com/zeynep/status/500451647793807360ferguson via:packrati.us net_neutrality technology filter social_media smartmobs
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15 Aug 14
Michel Bauwens"’m not quite sure that without the neutral side of the Internet—the livestreams whose “packets” were fast as commercial, corporate and moneyed speech that travels on our networks, Twitter feeds which are not determined by an opaque corporate algorithms but my own choices,—we’d be having this conversation.
So, I hope that in the coming days, there will be a lot written about race in America, about militarization of police departments, lack of living wage jobs in large geographic swaths of the country.
But keep in mind, Ferguson is also a net neutrality issue. It’s also an algorithmic filtering issue. How the internet is run, governed and filtered is a human rights issue.
And despite a lot of dismal developments, this fight is far from over, and its enemy is cynicism and dismissal of this reality.
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
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jenn stevens"How the internet is run, governed and filtered is a human rights issue." https://t.co/90uVASwzgs #Ferguson
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Jane FranklinWhy you haven't seen Ferguson on Facebook and why it didn't trend on Twitter: https://t.co/rDpf2FbNES
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Sean AndrewsThe punchline is Algorithms have consequences, but it is worth reading exactly what those are.
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But maybe in the future, they don’t have to bother to arrest journalists and force cameras off. In California, legislation is being considered for “kill switches” in phones — a feature I honestly cannot imagine a good use for this in the United States.
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The citizen journalists held on, even as choked from the gas, some traditional media started going live from the region, and today, it’s on the front page of many newspapers.
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So, I hope that in the coming days, there will be a lot written about race in America, about militarization of police departments, lack of living wage jobs in large geographic swaths of the country.
But keep in mind, Ferguson is also a net neutrality issue. It’s also an algorithmic filtering issue. How the internet is run, governed and filtered is a human rights issue.
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14 Aug 14
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Envisage TechnologiesIn the coming days, there will be a lot written about race in America, about militarization of police departments, lack of living wage jobs in large geographic swaths of the country.
But keep in mind, Ferguson is also a net neutrality issue. It’s also an algorithmic filtering issue. How the internet is run, governed and filtered is a human rights issue.
And despite a lot of dismal developments, this fight is far from over, and its enemy is cynicism and dismissal of this reality.
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
What happens to #Ferguson affects what happens to Ferguson.#Ferguson Twitter Facebook net neutrality algorithm filtering data information priority censorship police law enforcement citizen racism Ferguson Missouri
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Mark SmithersImportant piece by @zeynep on net neutrality, human rights, and #ferguson https://t.co/NT74E79lqS
– Audrey Watters (audreywatters) http://twitter.com/audreywatters/status/499968068596924419 -
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But I wonder: what if Ferguson had started to bubble, but there was no Twitter to catch on nationally? Would it ever make it through the algorithmic filtering on Facebook? Maybe, but with no transparency to the decisions, I cannot be sure.
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But maybe in the future, they don’t have to bother to arrest journalists and force cameras off. In California, legislation is being considered for “kill switches” in phones — a feature I honestly cannot imagine a good use for this in the United States.
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