Robert Gorwa
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Robert Gorwa
@gorwa.ca
Researching global tech policy at the WZB Berlin. 📕: The Politics of Platform Regulation - How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (out now OA 🔓) https://academic.oup.com/book/56385
Aaaaah thank you so much for reading and highlighting and sharing! 🕺🫶
December 2, 2024 at 5:11 PM
We spoke before Nov 5th and in retrospect I would’ve loved to have deepened the conversation on the US + the craziness that is likely to happen in a Trump II term, esp. when it comes to EU/US relations…alas. Hope this is still an interesting conversation and good overview of some of my arguments
December 2, 2024 at 5:08 PM
2: DM’s are centralised and not e2e (like Twitter; Mastodon they were also not e2e, but not broadcast to whole network; more like email in that only server admins could have access; Mastodon also baked in multiple reminders into its interface telling you to be cognizant of privacy)
November 29, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Also important to know:

1: blocking is managed in a public manner on the protocol - ‘you can query the network for every person who is blocking or is blocked by JK Rowling’
November 29, 2024 at 9:17 AM

Short answer: quite a lot of interesting techniques, including audio hashing, working with transcribed text, and moving away from content to profile users more deeply…

cdt.org/insights/rea...
November 25, 2024 at 1:35 PM