Fable’s ability to govern users—to deny access, limit capacity, steer towards other things—is the fullest realisation yet of the kind of intermediary power I wrote about in my “Governing the Algorithmic City”. If you’d like some conceptual resources to help you think through why this sucks so badly (and what if anything could make it legitimate), pls have a read: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/papa.12279
Johannes is spot on with this. Gosh if I ever hear this Q from a philosopher again I am going to turn Joker
Fable’s ability to govern users—to deny access, limit capacity, steer towards other things—is the fullest realisation yet of the kind of intermediary power I wrote about in my “Governing the Algorithmic City”. If you’d like some conceptual resources to help you think through why this sucks so badly (and what if anything could make it legitimate), pls have a read: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/papa.12279