Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Limiting what persons can say can be tricky. This is especially true in America where we don’t have much practice at it.

It appears to me that censorship is growing in America. We have too much “fake news,” so we need to stop some of it. At least some persons believe the previous statement and conclusion. I am not so sure, but that is another topic for another day.

Anyways, Facebook, Google, and such are being called to stop all this fake news. (ANOTHER DIGRESSION: why aren’t The National Enquirer and The Onion being called to stop their fake news?) Facebook and Google (and other famous folks) are stumbling along in their censorship programs. They rush new AI software into the limelight and then discover they have goofed and, well, what else do you do when you goof?

Here we find ourselves…we aren’t very good at censorship in America. I guess we haven’t practiced it enough to see the pitfalls and avoid the goofs. I like that. I hate to see the day when we have practiced enough to be good at it.