The Supreme Court hears arguments for two cases that could reshape the future of the internet
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Dating apps: too abstract for the plantiffs.
Justice Sotomayor asks:
If you write an algorithm for someone that in its structure ensures the discrminiation between people, a dating app, for example. … someone says “i’m going to create an algorithm that inherently discriminates against people.” you would say that internet provider is discriminating, correct?
Apparently this stumped the plaintiffs, who declared this hypothetical too abstract to respond to. Strange, considering the YouTube algorithm is probably more complicated than this scenario.
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