Techdirt: Everyone Hates Trust & Safety. Everyone Needs Trust & Safety. This Is A Problem.. “Everyone thinks trust & safety professionals are either censorial scolds or corporate lackeys, but everyone expects them to magically solve the inherent problems of human behavior at scale. I spent last week at TrustCon, the premier annual conference for the trust and safety industry (you can see our […]

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Everyone Hates Trust & Safety. Everyone Needs Trust & Safety. This Is A Problem.

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Live At TrustCon 2025

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For the third time this #TrustCon I'm hearing the phrase "trust and safety is adversarial". There is no end state where it's "done". It is for this reason I strongly believe every platform needs to allow an admin to block harmful content, starting with text strings and URLs known to be used in spam and fraud campaigns.

Yes, it's not perfect.

Yes, it may be misused or abused by individual admins.

Yes, it's embarrassing we can't as a network share a signal and protect our hosted users.