Reading Annotation 3.3; Noble Ch. 2-4

design impacts on social relations, search & oversimplification, the right to be forgotten The discussion beginning in Chapter 2 is very ambitious, and extremely necessary in my personal opinion. When Safiya Noble speaks about providing the tools and support to craft the new narrative where African Americans are "digitally undivided", I feel this concept is identical to the concept of "network sovereignty" that we read about earlier as written by Marisa Duarte. While there is definite proof that communities of color are structurally and in many cases excluded from being allowed to compete for careers as programmers or other growing technologies despite having adequate education/certifications and experience. In further exploration of Noble's claims, there are several questions regarding digital access that move to the forefront, yet another issue that seems to mirror a concern that Duarte had asserted was a major stumbling block in providing suitable broadband access to Indian Country. One thing seems to be universal; a lack of money equals a lack of access. I personally believe that the most important aspect of countering the negative social impacts that have been recognized by these authors is to do exactly what they have been. To continually identify and analyze the multiple areas where peoples of different socioeconomic backgrounds are systematically and underserved is exactly what is needed; to show that in this system once imagined as a place where unity could come from rapid communication and free flow of information has been brought to heel for now. As plainly demonstrated, there are too many interests involved with commercial search engines to keep biases long under wraps. The algorithms have managed to identify and predetermine outcomes for a vast number of queries, unwittingly entrenching older schools of thought having to do with gender, race, age, religion, and any other possible factors that it can use to calculate the likelihood of interests infinitely. This is thoroughly exemplified by the example given of Dylann Roof and his course of action taken at the Emanuel AME church, ultimately ending with the massacre of several African-American parishioners. It is explained in whole on his personal website where he was motivated by the Trayvon Martin murder and the subsequent media coverage, he wondered why there was never any reporting of black on white crime? In his google search, he came upon the Council of Conservative Citizens website among others. These sites addressed the issue in terms palatable to his biases, espousing a narrative and skewing figures in favor of a viewpoint where white people are currently in the crosshairs of a cultural genocide and being replaced by the Jews and whomever they control. In a line of his manifesto, he states "...I am completely racially aware". In the way this reinforcement of antiquated views is ever-present, it also seems that there is a growing culture of the dissemination of partial truths presented as fact in order to support a chosen narrative; to radically omit or oversimplify information with little regard for context. This could be a part of a modern phenomenon of tribalism, based on a certain set of factors that amount to a litmus test where acceptance or exclusion has real world implications and has a definite interrelationship with social media and other online entities. As the "right to be forgotten" concept clearly illustrates, there may be a need to begin applying pressure to the large corporations where personal data is concerned. As there are several instances laid out in the book where people whom had participated in the adult industry in their past were outed publicly, and made to suffer professionally regardless of past circumstances or in light of recent performance or accolades. This could, in fact, also be illustrated by an incident not long a go in Washington D.C. involving a field trip of young men from the Covington Catholic High School. The initial reaction to one of the young men seemingly smirking dismissively face to face with an older Native American man whom was singing and drumming created an enormous online backlash that included death threats, picketing, doxing, and a need for increased security for the family of the youth in the picture. The hostility was more based on what a young man in a MAGA hat seemingly disrespecting a Native American elder was all that was looked at, not the actual context of all of the occurrences aside from the photo. It may not be possible in instances like this to force big tech to begin taking the "right to be forgotten" seriously, but occurrences such as this should at least force them to visit the possibility more seriously than they have.