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content/notes/ethics-essay.md

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 So what can we do - as IT professionals, to improve the situation of widespread information. The ACM code of ethics outlines a set of principles that should act as a baseline for our actions. The ACM code of ethics was "designed to inspire and guide the ethical conduct of all computing professionals" and act as a "basis for remediation when violations occur". The Code is a set of principles with the public good as the primary consideration, each with a set of guidlines to help professionals put the principles into practice. The Code is an attempt to apply fundamental ethical principles to the computing profession.
 
-How can we apply this Code to the issue of misinformation, censorship, and freedom of expression. This is a very difficuly an nuanced topic. I personally think that freedom of speech is a very important part of our lives and that it should be held in the highest regard. However, it is not possible to grant entirely free speech to everyone while completely prohibiting misinformation.
+How can we apply this Code to the issue of misinformation, censorship, and freedom of expression. This is a very difficuly an nuanced topic. I personally think that freedom of speech is a very important part of our lives and that it should be held in the highest regard. However, it is not possible to grant entirely free speech to everyone while completely prohibiting misinformation. We must find a trade off between free speech and censorship of misinformation. As Mark Zuckerberg mention on episode 1863 on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, when identifying which channels should be censored, we have to choose between more false positives or more false negatives. It takes a substantial effort to fact check and verify articles. For this reason, sites such as Facebook, make us of AI algorithms to flag potentially unwanted content REF. This has some inherent issues: Namely, how do these algorithms decide what is harmful? What data is it trained on? Who chose what to train the algorithms on? Why should they be the ones to decide what is right and wrong? In the interview with Joe Rogan, Zuckerberg stated that for important and controversial cases, posts are reviewed by third parties. 
 
 Ideas
 - a social media platform that had a cap on the number of followers a person can have, and the number of people a person can follow

content/notes/jre-1863-zuck.md

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-title: "jre-1863-zuck"
-aliases: 
-tags: 
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-- asgn3
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-- facebook
-	- not imprint their opion - empower people to share 
-	- bring world closer together
-	- huge responsibility
-	- choose what gets aplified - what gets supressed
-	- help peopple discover what they want
-	- value that people can believe different things - good to let them express that
-	- knowledge of people utilising facebook for fake pages to promote political agendas
-	- coordinated inauthentic behaviour
-		- team of people to find and remove these
-		- "arms race" 1:40:10
-	- "defend integrity of the community" 1:40:30
-	- sometimes they get it wrong
-	- "do you want more false positive or more false negative" 1:42:01 which do you value more
-	- "not black and white" 
-	- temporary waiting period white visibility is supressed white the story if fact checked.

content/notes/zuck.md

@@ -30,4 +30,21 @@ ability to control the flow of information
 - company run by human beings that have the ability to to decide what is shown and supressed.
 - this concerns a lot of people
 
-"empowering people to express themselves"
+"empowering people to express themselves"
+
+- facebook
+	- not imprint their opion - empower people to share 
+	- bring world closer together
+	- huge responsibility
+	- choose what gets aplified - what gets supressed
+	- help peopple discover what they want
+	- value that people can believe different things - good to let them express that
+	- knowledge of people utilising facebook for fake pages to promote political agendas
+	- coordinated inauthentic behaviour
+		- team of people to find and remove these
+		- "arms race" 1:40:10
+	- "defend integrity of the community" 1:40:30
+	- sometimes they get it wrong
+	- "do you want more false positive or more false negative" 1:42:01 which do you value more
+	- "not black and white" 
+	- temporary waiting period white visibility is supressed white the story if fact checked.