Week 11

 Censorship

There still aren't very good algorithms or bots that can scour videos or text properly to filter or outright "delete" content that by polocies should be censored either due to the audience possibly being young or for avoiding conflict and keeping the fires in control. Thus there are fair amount of biases or "favorism" to certain individuals when it comes to punishing people for not following proper censorship when they've agreed to do so. A good amount of cases are reviewed by people themselves and depending on the relationship or favorism the punishment can be little to none, compared to some others.

For example on twitch there have been plenty of people saying racial slurs, even amongs the biggest streamers on the platform, but as some get strikes and bans from the platform permanently. The bigger streamers get much lenier treatment, assumably due to it being more damaging than benefitial for the platform owners to outright ban them from the website entirely, as the streamers earn revenue for the website. While smaller streamers don't give that sort of benefit they get the boot immediately. Even among the bigger streamers there have been scandals about streamers getting temporary banned for animal abuse or being overly sexual to the audience. Note that once again there is favorism towards the bigger streamers compared to streamers with a smaller audience.

Privacy

I would argue, the biggest problem in privacy is the fact that the privacy issues and the data collected are not disclosed to the public. Because only in recent years, it has become mandatory to warn users about cookies for example, but websites have been doing this for years before this, similarly it is a difficult topic to grasp and know how your data could even be processed by the companies and third-parties. By not being transparent around it, it can create uneccesary scare to some and hatred of the company to others, because nobody likes being tracked, watched and noted by without concent. There is a reason why filming someone secretly could be upright illegal, but the laws are very much behind the development and use of the internet.

Besides it being displeasing to know how much data could be collected about you and it being sold to third-parties around the globe. There are other issues that non-transparency can bring. For example when a database about collected data is leaked, username, password, e-mail, geographical location etc. This information would be useful for the user to change their credentials on other accounts to prevent further damage on their side, as bots could attempt to enter your leaked credentials in many services in attempts to gain access and hijack accounts. But companies do not want the bad reputation of being accountable for millions of peoples data being leaked to hackers around the globe and thus withold such critical information from the public and further increasing the potential damage that the leak can cause. Most of this increased damage is just on the users side, so the companies do not see any benefit to doing so. But some years ago there was a new law being enforced that data leaking must be told to the public and the cases of dataleaks suddenly skyrocketed, almost as if many companies didn't publish their leaks.