Facebook using artificial intelligence to uncover extremist posts

"Ideally, one day our technology will address everything. It's in development right now." Human moderators are still needed to review content for context.

--NYT June 16, 2017

Civil rights investigations in Betsy Devos' Department of Education

The Department of Eduation is scaling back investigations into civil rights violations at the nation's public schools and universities, easing off mandates imposed by the Obama administration....

The new guidelines were to ensure that 'every individual complainant gets the care and attention they deserve...Justice delayed in justice denied, and justice for many complainants has been denied for too long,' said.

--Erica L. Green, NYT, June 17, 2017

Comment: apparently the new education secretary thinks that the solution to justice delayed, is to have no recourse to justice at all.

The importance of critics and criticism

There is a danger when we see criticism as nothing but an expression of resentment. For in politics, as in art, the right to criticize is really the right to make an independent judgment of reality....

Plurality--the existence of profoundly different points of view on questions of morality and politics--can never simply disappear. It must be actively suppressed, which is why Communist and fascist states that emphasized the  unity of the people's will relied so heavily on secret police forces....

We will alwyas need political dreamers; but for the sake of our democracy, we must hope that the future belongs to the critics.

--Adam Kirsch, NYTBR essay, June 18, 2017