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    18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal & Chapter 2020

    The Portal · Jan 15, 2020 · 1 h 09 min
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    This "housekeeping" (cough cough) episode of The Portal is only for the hard core listeners who launched this experiment with us. This year we begin to take on the idea of the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex or "DISC". From "Terms of Service" changes, to selective enforcement of rules, peer review, "Strategic Silence", 'authoritative sources only', deboosting, shadow banning, down ranking…

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