Censorship flood: takedown notices to Google increased by 711,887% in four years

By way of perspective, there are ~ 1.2 million lawyers (of all types, passed bar in at least one state, in the United States.)

If it hasn’t already gotten to this point already (notably, the paper shows an increase in ‘bundling’ of multiple, sometimes unrelated, takedown demnds into a single ‘notice’, which helps mask the speed of the increase, alarming as it is even so), it soon will be the case that providing anything we would historically recognize as even a low-rent version of ‘due process’ will not only be uneconomic (as it already is, unless you have substantial means or are an EFF test case or something); but as absurdly impractical as having somebody hand-read email to be sure it isn’t spam.

It’s all still based on theoretically familiar legal principles; but the logistics are such that that is not only false, it’s so false as to practically be a category error. “Process”, by sheer bulk, if not by any mendacity, is a bot duel, and one with a substantial inbuilt bias.

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