My gratitude to public education.

All the words we are no longer allowed to say on social media platforms are precisely the reason we should take a stand, express our outrage, and promote meaningful change in society. If politics is located wherever there is a discourse of power, then we must ensure the possibility of disobedience.

I was often told I was writing a thesis about social justice. While searching for empirical evidence to show how freedom of expression was being stifled by unnegotiated ethical decisions, I came across moralizing policies that discriminated against people on the basis of their gender, race or class.

As Gillespie states "all platforms moderate", but automated content moderation allows to observe how the implementation of AI systems—along with the opacity of their guidelines and their inability to deliver fair judgments that account for syntax and context—is not always the most reasonable choice.