Access to work, payments, housing, and mobility is increasingly governed by private scores and rankings (credit scores, platform ratings, search order) rather than formal legal rights. Punishment is often de‑ranking or deplatforming, which can matter more than court sanctions for everyday life.
— If ordinal rankings quietly outrun law, governance debates must account for private power exercised through scoring systems.
Alexander Sorondo
2025.10.12
73% relevant
Uber Eats’ tiering and priority access based on acceptance rates is a private scoring system that determines access to higher‑paying work, effectively governing drivers’ earnings through ranking and de‑ranking rather than formal rights.
msmash
2025.10.09
55% relevant
The article addresses state regulation of private, data‑driven scoring systems—here, personalized prices set by algorithms using customer data—by requiring conspicuous disclosure; this connects to the broader theme that private scoring often governs access and outcomes and is now drawing legal constraints.
msmash
2025.09.29
82% relevant
The article shows housing access being conditioned on private verification regimes where a vendor scrapes payroll/tax data from Workday, letting landlords gate tenancy through opaque data grabs rather than due‑process rights—an example of private scoring/controls overriding practical rights.
Anonymous teacher
2025.09.21
50% relevant
Senso functions as a private, score‑like gatekeeper that flags 'risky' text (e.g., 'suicide,' 'bomb,' 'gay'), shifting staff behavior toward protocol and away from rights‑based judgments; this echoes how private scoring systems can quietly govern access and treatment without due process.
Mike Smeltzer
2025.09.20
70% relevant
Advertiser flight and station refusals to carry Kimmel, alongside 'aging audiences' and revenue claims for Colbert, illustrate how private performance metrics and economics can effectively gate speech despite formal First Amendment protections.
msmash
2025.09.15
55% relevant
The CMI survey shows employers increasingly governing workers through monitored activity (emails, web use, screen capture), extending private, score-like controls into employment. This mirrors the broader shift from formal rights to private metric-based governance.
msmash
2025.09.11
86% relevant
Google Maps star ratings function as a gatekeeper for service businesses; scammers threaten to tank scores or demand payment to remove fake reviews, and Google offers no direct support channel. This concretely illustrates private scoring systems exercising power over work access without due‑process safeguards.
Tyler Cowen
2025.09.05
60% relevant
The paper’s claim that TV ratings reliance coincides with favorable calls for the Chiefs maps onto the broader thesis that private rating/attention metrics can override formal rules and fairness, shifting practical power from law-on-the-books to economic incentives.
Ted Gioia
2025.09.04
80% relevant
YouTube’s three‑strike policy functions as a private scoring regime that can erase a creator’s livelihood regardless of fair‑use legality; Universal Music Group’s repeated claims against Rick Beato exploit that system to threaten deplatforming.
Kevin Dickinson
2025.09.02
84% relevant
The article details Goodreads one‑star campaigns and review‑bombing (e.g., Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Snow Forest, Amélie Wen Zhao’s Blood Heir, Sophie Lark’s Sparrow and Vine) steering publishers, librarians, teachers, and media to cancel or retract—an example of private scores and rankings determining access and outcomes more than formal legal rights.
Tyler Cowen
2025.08.29
55% relevant
The paper shows that private, platform-mediated signals (follow-backs) function as informal gatekeepers for professional access in economics, echoing how private ranking systems can matter more than formal rights or procedures in determining opportunity.
Arnold Kling
2025.08.24
70% relevant
Steve Stewart-Williams’ note that AI can predict Big Five traits from photos points to richer, privately controlled scoring systems that could govern access to jobs, payments, and services without formal legal adjudication.
Marion Fourcade & Kieran Healy
2025.08.21
100% relevant
The essay’s claim that digital emancipation rests on classifying everything, from IBM’s early insurance data processing to today’s platform rating regimes.
Alex Hochuli
2025.08.20
80% relevant
By treating platform monopolies and surveillance as the core of a post‑capitalist or hyper‑capitalist order, the article maps onto the claim that private, ranked systems (platform scores, gatekeeping) increasingly govern life more than formal legal rights.
Daniel Peris
2025.08.20
62% relevant
Like private scoring systems that end up governing access to real-world opportunities, the S&P 500 has become a benchmark that now directs capital flows and corporate behavior; a measurement has turned into a de facto governor of outcomes.
Matt Stoller
2025.08.20
70% relevant
Instagram’s recommendation ranking effectively routed groomers to minors, demonstrating how platform ordering systems exert de facto governance power with real harms while legal frameworks (e.g., antitrust focused on price) struggle to address those algorithmic choices.