Elon Musk Must Untangle a Twisted Web of Artificial Intelligence, Non-Profits, Government Agencies, and Massive Censorship
Last weekend, Elon Musk announced a limit on Twitter’s post viewing to “address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation” much to the disgust of free-speech patriots. Accounts all across Twitter thought this was another form of censorship and a grab at obtaining more paid blue check marks. Outside of perhaps a small number of Twitter users, this was the overwhelming sentiment one would see while browsing through Twitter feeds (don’t browse too much…800 posts goes by quick!).
Perhaps the best summation of the move by Musk came from Mike Benz of the Foundation for Freedom Online: this was an effort to beat the AI-censorship bots. Benz alludes to an “AI censorship Death Star” that has been under construction and renovation every week,
