I think AI is making the censorship problem worse by reducing the cost. Social media is undergoing a transition from human generated content to human moderated to AI moderated to AI generated. Ultimately humans will only interact with AI and lose the ability to communicate with each other, even face to face.
I was reading on Reddit (banned in China) that Pornhub (banned in China) will also be banned in my home state of Florida starting on Jan. 1 due to a law that requires age 18+ verification for adult sites. When Louisiana passed a similar law, the site complied by requiring users to upload an image of their drivers license, but traffic dropped 80% as users just went to other sites. They decided it wasn't worth the effort and just block by IP address. And it's not just red states doing this. Biden has been pushing the Child Online Protection Act, which would have the effect of requiring ID to use any social media. Australia already passed a law banning children under 16 from using social media. I think anyone familiar with the tactics of totalitarian governments can appreciate the need for anonymity in journalism. I had thought that internet censorship would hold back China's rapid economic growth, but that does not seem to be the case. How can manufacturers export their products if they can't access the foreign sites where they need to advertise and sell them? I did a quick Google (banned in China) search for a list of websites banned in China and found this one on Wikipedia (banned in China). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_mainland_China When I wrote my distributed AGI proposal in 2008 ( https://mattmahoney.net/agi2.html ), censorship wasn't even an issue. I imagined a global message pool that anyone could post to anonymously, signed and dated cryptographically. Messages could never be deleted or modified once posted, making it censor proof as a byproduct of computational efficiency. This was when social media consisted mostly of USENET and mailing lists, a year before Bitcoin, and 2 years before the Arab Spring when the dictators of Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt were overthrown because they didn't recognize the power of the internet to organize the opposition. Now we know, which is why every government wants to regulate it. On Thu, Dec 19, 2024, 10:55 AM YKY (Yan King Yin, 甄景贤) < generic.intellige...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 2:42 AM stefan.reich.maker.of.eye via AGI < > agi@agi.topicbox.com> wrote: > >> That is so bad. >> >> Currently it seems the west is heading into that same direction, rather >> than China opening up. But then again, anything is possible, this can >> hopefully reverse some day. >> > > YouTube seems to be censoring comments against China, which is very > weird... unless some Americans have the sinister idea of helping a > repressive regime to repress its people... and also influential enough to > implement it in YouTube... that borders on conspiracy theory. > > I am proposing to build a platform for commenting on videos and for open > discussions respecting freedom of speech... but the people I contacted all > turned it down 😕 > > Current events in the world are disappointing to me.... but they are also > extraordinarily ordinary... empire going down the path of empire... the > US as an empire will decline or even collapse. I actually want to help > America to be great again.... because I consider many Americans my > friends.... but my idea of MAGA would be based on progressive values rather > than imperialism. It seems that the reasoning ability of people is not > sufficient to avoid making the mistake of empire and decline. > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T8685950780e86bd5-M2ad108c1414f6c57fbe6367c> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T8685950780e86bd5-M65527828755e36e116c3695d Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
