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From Fax Machines to AI Gatekeepers: Free Publication, Advocacy, Automated Distribution, and the Difference Between Private Platform Control and State Censorship examines how freedom of publication changes when communications increasingly depend on privately controlled AI infrastructure.
The paper compares traditional fax and email distribution with AI-assisted dissemination; distinguishes transparent press notification from individualized political persuasion; evaluates private-platform moderation against PRC state-directed information controls; and examines whether formal appeal channels provide meaningful review in practice.
Key questions
- When does technical assistance become political gatekeeping?
- Should transparent delivery of an attributable public paper to professional media be treated differently from voter targeting or covert influence?
- Can formally neutral automation limits disproportionately burden small civil-society organizations?
- What makes an appeal process meaningful rather than merely nominal?
- Where do private AI-platform controls and PRC censorship differ institutionally, and where can their effects be compared functionally?
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