Tag: racism
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Technological Elites, the Meritocracy, and Post-Racial Myths in Silicon Valley
Written by Safiya Umoja Noble and Sarah T. Roberts on UCLA Published Works.
“What we learn from consistently studying the discourses of Silicon Valley is that its successes come at the expense of a growing number of communities. The costs to these communities are masked by investments in an imagined post-racial, post-gender, post-class reality that is seemingly sympathetic to inclusion, but resists it in material, quantifiable and cultural terms.”
Tagged with: meritocracy, racism, Silicon Valley.
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Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm
Written by Kashmir Hill on The New York Times.
“We’ve been active in trying to sound the alarm bells around facial recognition, both as a threat to privacy when it works and a racist threat to everyone when it doesn’t,” said Phil Mayor, an attorney at [American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan]. “We know these stories are out there, but they’re hard to hear about because people don’t usually realize they’ve been the victim of a bad facial recognition search.”
Read ‘Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm’ on the The New York Times site.
Tagged with: facial recognition, algorithmic bias, racism.
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Facebook while black: Users call it getting ‘Zucked,’ say talking about racism is censored as hate speech
Written by Jessica Guynn on USA Today.
“Facebook is not looking to protect me or any other person of color or any other marginalized citizen who are being attacked by hate speech,” [Carolyn Wysinger] says. “We get trolls all the time. People who troll your page and say hateful things. But nobody is looking to protect us from it. They are just looking to protect their bottom line.”
Tagged with: racism, censorship, Facebook.
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Prejudice, tech’s systemic issues and responsive images
The best bookmarks I saved in Week 11, 2019.
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