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I hate appeals to Orwell on the internet because they're often incredibly reductionist or laughably dramatic, but it's hard to read this and not think of wrongthink.
To elaborate: while most forms of moderation require users to participate in spoken or written engagement, which is reviewed by humans, now users can be reprimanded by a black-box algorithm for entirely passive participation (upvoting). This policy is somehow tenable even if the upvotes are not brigades.
Comment by 03slampig at 29/06/2020 at 18:08 UTC
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Its unfortunate some saw his works as a guide book on how to shape society and not a cautionary tale.