Speech Police

Kaye, D. Bondy Valdovinos

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“…Different social networks share similar community guidelines, banning content that is often already prohibited by the criminal law of most countries (Goanta & Ortolani, 2021). Yet, platforms have been known to over-censor content they found legal but potentially objectionable, with a set of repercussions on users' freedom of expression (Goanta & Ortolani, 2021;Kaye, 2019). This conservative approach to censorship has been linked to platforms' wish to protect their commercial interests by being overzealous in following recent legislation (Are & Paasonen, 2021;Blunt & Stardust, 2021;Blunt & Wolf, 2020;Nolan-Brown, 2022;Tiideberg & van der Nagel, 2020).…”

Section: De-platforming Sex (And Beyond)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Instagram's understanding of sexually suggestive elements has been notoriously opaque, inconsistent, arbitrary, and puritan (Are, , 2021cKaye, 2019;Paasonen et al, 2019) to the point where "offering sexual services" or "sexual solicitation" are not even defined within platforms' terms of use. This means that users are not privy to Instagram's understanding of sex work and solicitation-and it appears that the platform's threshold for these behaviors is so low and unclear that even users outside of sex work have been de-platformed after having shared news or petition links , while sex workers sharing petitions, news articles or any other link-based information have found themselves de-platformed even when not linking to adult content (Stefanello, 2021).…”

Section: De-platforming Sex (And Beyond)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Emotional and Financial Impact of De-Platforming on Creators at the Margins

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Briggs

2023

Social Media + Society

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This study provides one of the first examples of de-platforming’s direct emotional and financial impact on Instagram and TikTok content creators at the margins. Both platforms provide significant opportunities toward creative and flexible work, allowing creators to maintain networks, promote work, express themselves and earn a living. However, their governance can severely disrupt certain forms of content creation, particularly for users who post online sex work and nude content. Through a qualitative survey, we gathered the experiences of 123 de-platformed Instagram and TikTok users who posted nude or sex work-related content. Our study provides crucial testimonies showing that the precarity of creator labor and platforms’ reliance on automated content moderation have negatively impacted creators’ well-being. Participants faced adverse psychological impacts resulting from job and income uncertainty, associated feelings of powerlessness, a loss of digital identity, and enforced isolation from a previously established social network. We conclude by providing platform governance recommendations based on these experiences.

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Section: De-platforming Sex (And Beyond)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: De-platforming Sex (And Beyond)mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Emotional and Financial Impact of De-Platforming on Creators at the Margins

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2023

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“…Much of the recent work on content moderation has focused on platforms that regulate their users’ speech on the largest scales with teams of paid moderators. Work in this area has focused on companies like Facebook and Google, covering the quasi-legal nature of their regimes of governance (Klonick, 2017; Suzor, 2019), the exploitative, hidden labor that enables that governance (Roberts, 2019), and the urgent need for greater accountability from platforms that mediate global speech (Gillespie, 2018; Kaye, 2019). Another line of work has concentrated on platforms like Reddit and Wikipedia, where moderation is largely handled by user volunteers (Grimmelmann, 2015).…”

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Automated Platform Governance Through Visibility and Scale: On the Transformational Power of AutoModerator

Wright

2022

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When platforms use algorithms to moderate content, how should researchers understand the impact on moderators and users? Much of the existing literature on this question views moderation as a series of decision-making tasks and evaluates moderation algorithms based on their accuracy. Drawing on literature from the field of platform governance, I argue that content moderation is more than a series of discrete decisions but rather a complex system of rules, mechanism, and procedures. Research must therefore articulate how automated moderation alters the broader regime of governance on a platform. To demonstrate this, I report on the findings of a qualitative study on the Reddit bot AutoModerator, using interviews and trace ethnography. I find that the scale of the bot allows moderators to carefully manage the visibility of content and content moderation on Reddit, fundamentally transforming the basic rules of governance on the platform.

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“…Even so, ‘global’ overt regulation at source is the least likely future path. Rather, the recently demonstrated capacity of nation-states like Germany to legitimately regulate demagogic speech, for example, becomes critical (Kaye, 2019). Again, the normative goal here is not censorial suppression but rather the redressing of an existent socio-legal configuration amenable to demagogic power.…”

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Demagogic populism and media system: A preliminary articulation

Jones

2021

European Journal of Communication

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Political communication studies has a long tradition of ‘crisis talk’ regarding the fate of public communication. Now, however, the field itself faces a kind of existential crisis as its core assumptions of ‘normal’ political communication are daily undermined. This ‘liberal normalcy’ shares much with orthodoxies in populism studies, most notably a tendency to bracket out demagogic communication, both in historical fascist regimes and democracies. Yet correcting these failings is not simply a matter of rejecting liberal models for left-populist ones. Rather, both fields need to broaden their historical parameters and deepen their theoretical frameworks. The article draws on the Weberian conception of modern demagogy and its revision in the wake of 'modern media' by Shils and Adorno. It further argues that a critical reworking of Hallin and Mancini’s media systems approach could benefit both fields. For Hallin and Mancini’s socio-historical use of Weberian ideal-typification complements Worsley’s never-completed plan for an ideal-typification of modes of populism and demagogic leadership.

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Speech Police

Cited by 72 publications

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The Emotional and Financial Impact of De-Platforming on Creators at the Margins

The Emotional and Financial Impact of De-Platforming on Creators at the Margins

Automated Platform Governance Through Visibility and Scale: On the Transformational Power of AutoModerator

Demagogic populism and media system: A preliminary articulation

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