[AndrewKemendo]

If you squint and view the modern corporation as a proxy for "an AI censor of superhuman intelligence gatekeeping the means of content creation" - then that's been happening for a long while now.

Automatic review of content, NSFW filters, SPAM filters etc... have been bog standard since the earliest days of the internet.

I don't think anyone likes it. Some fight it and create their own spaces that allow certain types of content. Most people accept it though and move on with their lives

[vintermann]

I'm down with calling a corporation intelligent (as long as you don't call it a person). But automatic content review is regularly bypassed, they can't even keep very obvious spam off YouTube comments, such as comments copied from real users, posted with usernames like ClickMyChannelForXXX.

So if the corporation is an intelligent collective, then it's regularly outsmarted by other intelligent collectives determined to bypass it.

[AndrewKemendo]

Agreed, I think that's a good way to put it. That other collectives kind of "nip" at the larger ones and cause them to implement defenses.

[pverghese]

That's the government forcing corporations to do that

[AndrewKemendo]

Normally I don't respond but this is just false

SPAM filters on SMTP ports were implemented long long before any government mandated it - at the ISP level often

Further, the development DKIM and SPF, were incidental to any government requirement

Preemptively: The fact that the early internet was heavily government and institutionally focused, doesn't a government mandate make

[kelseyfrog]

We can look back further at the Hays code. That's just religion plain and simple. The feeling of, "we're sliding into a decadence which will lead to the downfall of our civilization" is a meme propagating this very sentiment. It's not a simple as just the government, but that does co-occur.