CODED HIERARCHIES: RACIAL AND CASTE DISCRIMINATION IN SOCIAL MEDIA
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| author | Dr. Prashant Dhondiba Kasabe Mr. Martin Subhash Khairnar |
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| contents | <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Abstract:</span></strong></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Earlier, the means of communication with the people were yagna, home-havan, bhajan, kirtan, bhagavatsaptah, sermons, newspapers, radio, etc. After World War II, television was included in it. All these are traditional media for disseminating information. Now, internet-based infotech and biotech technology-based devices have come, which are called social media. In reality, they are not social media but global corporate media. They are big corporate companies and their operations are mainly conducted worldwide through servers in a city in America or China. Let us call them global media. These global media have created a monopoly in delivering information to the people. In India, Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Google Plus are the only internet platforms each. In India, 'Koo' has not been able to replace Twitter and 'Telegram' has not been able to replace WhatsApp. Like TV, global media is also a mine for spreading 'fake news'. BBC had held a seminar on 'Beyond Fake News' at IIT Delhi on 13thNovember 2018. In it, Facebook's Manish Khanduri said about propaganda, 'If it violates our Community Standards, we remove it’. For example, we have a very strict policy on content related to porn, violence, rape or murder, and such content is removed immediately; but when someone calls some content as propaganda for a political party, we enter the realm of thought and speculation. In the same programme, Google's Erin J. Lew said that they are trying to stop fake news. On the other hand, regarding action against fake news, Twitter's Vijaya Gade said, 'We don't have any policy that can stop you from lying on Twitter. Even if we give people the option to lie, what can we do about it? Because it is not against our policy'. This means that the global media is not in the mood to stop fake news and propaganda. It was because of fake news and propaganda that the case of Kanhaiya Kumar, a PhD student at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, was made. Due to the propaganda of love jihad, on December 8, 2017, ShambhulalRegar alias Shambhu Bhavani killed Afrazul, who had gone to work as a labourer from Malda in West Bengal, by hitting him on the head with a hammer. ShambhulalRegar alias Shambhu Bhavani was a victim of the fake agenda created with the help of biased algorithm set in our global media. Thousands of ordinary people have been transformed into murderers and rioters in this way. From the perspective of the impact of propaganda on ShambhulalRegar, the attack on Afrazul's head with a hammer was revenge for the 'atrocities committed against Hindus', this was an attack against the conspiracy to 'trap Hindu girls in the net of love and convert them to Muslims'. This was revenge for the 'Islamic conspiracy' to separate Kashmir from India. This was revenge for the conspiracy of Muslims to 'increase the population by having four marriages and having many children'. This Shambhu, while not being an activist of any Hindutva organization, brutally murdered a poor labourer. Millions of human robots have been created in this way. These human robots do not have the ability to think for themselves and have the power of reason. These human robots act by believing the lies they hear in propaganda. The rapid evolution of social media and Artificial Intelligence (AI) was initially viewed as a democratizing force that would dismantle traditional social barriers. However, this paper argues that these technologies have instead created "Coded Hierarchies” digital environments where historical racial and caste-based discrimination are not only preserved but also implemented and automated as a natural tendency. By referring to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s 20thcentury critique of biased administrative "machinery" to 21stcentury algorithmic "machinery," the study illustrates how systems of exclusion are scaled through code. </span><span>The paper analyzes the Frances Haugen disclosures to highlight the catastrophic neglect of non-Western markets and the "detection gap" in caste-based hate speech. Furthermore, it incorporates the perspectives of Dr.Vijender Chauhan to critique the "Savarna-bias" inherent in Large Language Models (LLMs) and digital hiring tools. The findings suggest that the "neutral" design of Silicon Valley platforms acts as a "Digital Manu," reinforcing dominant-group supremacy. The paper concludes that true digital justice requires a shift from technical colour-blindness to a "caste-conscious" and "race-aware" design philosophy that prioritizes the safety of marginalized communities over platform engagement metrics.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Keywords:</span></strong><span> </span><span>Coded Hierarchies, Racial and Caste Discrimination, Social Media, Etc.</span></p> </div> |
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| spellingShingle | CODED HIERARCHIES: RACIAL AND CASTE DISCRIMINATION IN SOCIAL MEDIA Dr. Prashant Dhondiba Kasabe Mr. Martin Subhash Khairnar <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Abstract:</span></strong></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Earlier, the means of communication with the people were yagna, home-havan, bhajan, kirtan, bhagavatsaptah, sermons, newspapers, radio, etc. After World War II, television was included in it. All these are traditional media for disseminating information. Now, internet-based infotech and biotech technology-based devices have come, which are called social media. In reality, they are not social media but global corporate media. They are big corporate companies and their operations are mainly conducted worldwide through servers in a city in America or China. Let us call them global media. These global media have created a monopoly in delivering information to the people. In India, Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Google Plus are the only internet platforms each. In India, 'Koo' has not been able to replace Twitter and 'Telegram' has not been able to replace WhatsApp. Like TV, global media is also a mine for spreading 'fake news'. BBC had held a seminar on 'Beyond Fake News' at IIT Delhi on 13thNovember 2018. In it, Facebook's Manish Khanduri said about propaganda, 'If it violates our Community Standards, we remove it’. For example, we have a very strict policy on content related to porn, violence, rape or murder, and such content is removed immediately; but when someone calls some content as propaganda for a political party, we enter the realm of thought and speculation. In the same programme, Google's Erin J. Lew said that they are trying to stop fake news. On the other hand, regarding action against fake news, Twitter's Vijaya Gade said, 'We don't have any policy that can stop you from lying on Twitter. Even if we give people the option to lie, what can we do about it? Because it is not against our policy'. This means that the global media is not in the mood to stop fake news and propaganda. It was because of fake news and propaganda that the case of Kanhaiya Kumar, a PhD student at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, was made. Due to the propaganda of love jihad, on December 8, 2017, ShambhulalRegar alias Shambhu Bhavani killed Afrazul, who had gone to work as a labourer from Malda in West Bengal, by hitting him on the head with a hammer. ShambhulalRegar alias Shambhu Bhavani was a victim of the fake agenda created with the help of biased algorithm set in our global media. Thousands of ordinary people have been transformed into murderers and rioters in this way. From the perspective of the impact of propaganda on ShambhulalRegar, the attack on Afrazul's head with a hammer was revenge for the 'atrocities committed against Hindus', this was an attack against the conspiracy to 'trap Hindu girls in the net of love and convert them to Muslims'. This was revenge for the 'Islamic conspiracy' to separate Kashmir from India. This was revenge for the conspiracy of Muslims to 'increase the population by having four marriages and having many children'. This Shambhu, while not being an activist of any Hindutva organization, brutally murdered a poor labourer. Millions of human robots have been created in this way. These human robots do not have the ability to think for themselves and have the power of reason. These human robots act by believing the lies they hear in propaganda. The rapid evolution of social media and Artificial Intelligence (AI) was initially viewed as a democratizing force that would dismantle traditional social barriers. However, this paper argues that these technologies have instead created "Coded Hierarchies” digital environments where historical racial and caste-based discrimination are not only preserved but also implemented and automated as a natural tendency. By referring to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s 20thcentury critique of biased administrative "machinery" to 21stcentury algorithmic "machinery," the study illustrates how systems of exclusion are scaled through code. </span><span>The paper analyzes the Frances Haugen disclosures to highlight the catastrophic neglect of non-Western markets and the "detection gap" in caste-based hate speech. Furthermore, it incorporates the perspectives of Dr.Vijender Chauhan to critique the "Savarna-bias" inherent in Large Language Models (LLMs) and digital hiring tools. The findings suggest that the "neutral" design of Silicon Valley platforms acts as a "Digital Manu," reinforcing dominant-group supremacy. The paper concludes that true digital justice requires a shift from technical colour-blindness to a "caste-conscious" and "race-aware" design philosophy that prioritizes the safety of marginalized communities over platform engagement metrics.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Keywords:</span></strong><span> </span><span>Coded Hierarchies, Racial and Caste Discrimination, Social Media, Etc.</span></p> </div> |
| title | CODED HIERARCHIES: RACIAL AND CASTE DISCRIMINATION IN SOCIAL MEDIA |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20326453 |