Comments on: My Senate Testimony on SESTA + SESTA Hearing Linkwrap https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2017/09/my-senate-testimony-on-sesta-sesta-hearing-linkwrap.htm Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Richard Bennett https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2017/09/my-senate-testimony-on-sesta-sesta-hearing-linkwrap.htm#comment-1938 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:09:00 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=17800#comment-1938 In reply to Eric Goldman.

The EFF link simply states the opinion that Oracle is lying when it says filtering has come a long way: “While automated filtering technologies have certainly improved since Section 230 passed in 1996, Oracle implies that bots can now filter out sex traffickers’ activity with near-perfect accuracy without causing any collateral damage. That’s simply not true.” He said, she said.

Nick’s blog post is a lot better, but it seems to confuse comment filtering with ad filtering. The latter is a lot easier than the former, of course.

]]> By: Eric Goldman https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2017/09/my-senate-testimony-on-sesta-sesta-hearing-linkwrap.htm#comment-1937 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:18:00 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=17800#comment-1937 In reply to Richard Bennett.

Two places to start:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/09/18/sesta-may-encourage-the-adoption-of-broken-automated-filtering-technologies/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/stop-sesta-whose-voices-will-sesta-silence

]]> By: Richard Bennett https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2017/09/my-senate-testimony-on-sesta-sesta-hearing-linkwrap.htm#comment-1936 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:13:00 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=17800#comment-1936 I’d like to see some evidence for this claim: “Automated filters are costly and suffer from high error rates.” If it’s true, there’s a business waiting to be born that will make it false.

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