Who gets a voice?

[marjaerwin]

I stopped visiting Facebook years ago, but from what I've read about it's algorithmic moderation standards, it isn't set up to give more people a voice, it's set up to enable disinformation, and to excuse properly-adjectived hate speech. A hostile environment can be a silencing technique. And harassment and deliberate triggering, so common in online spaces, are silencing techniques, which tend to deny marginalized ppl a voice:

https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/mark-zuckerberg-facebooks-free-speech-politicians-lie.html

Some of my prior thoughts on this:

https://marjaerwin.dreamwidth.org/107630.html

https://marjaerwin.dreamwidth.org/120143.html