From adb4a0ee4710527a132847967e36994475d488f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Lemmer Webber Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:54:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add section on reputation scoring --- README.org | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.org b/README.org index d1efdfc..0f5d2c7 100644 --- a/README.org +++ b/README.org @@ -598,6 +598,19 @@ But content filtering shouldn't be the foundation of our systems. *** Reputation scoring +Reputation scoring, at the very least, leads us back to the problems +of high-school like pandering for popularity. +At the very worst, it results in a credit system that is +[[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/13/your-credit-score-is-racist-heres-why][disproportionally racist]]. + +The effort to categorize people based on their reputation is of +increased interest to both large companies and large governments +around the world. +An ongoing initiative in China is named the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System][Social Credit System]]. +The effect of a reputation hit can be [[https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4#a-prototype-blacklist-already-exists-and-has-been-used-to-punish-people-8][wide-spread]] and +[[https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/12/12/chinas-chilling-social-credit-blacklist][coercive]]. +We need to do better. + *** Going back to centralization ** A way forward: networks of consent