Urban Futurist DemocratUltimately I wonder if online moderation will only become viable once collectively purchased by the government, like other distasteful & essential jobs (garbage collection, but make it need more emotional intelligence & risk more trauma).
Sam Bosbach@UrbFuturistDem If the government gets directly involved in ownership of social media, moderation becomes next to impossible due to the First Amendment. If moderators are employed by the government they cannot silence users except in established legal precedents. i.e. even a public library account on Facebook is not supposed to moderate the comments it gets on its posts. Small agencies and officials often do anyway and get away with it, but courts would end it quick if it became general.
@s_bosbach I agree it's extremely fraught but simultaneously may be only path forward. Maybe government offers it as a service only, subsidized for non-profit/community users, but users set the standards and government just handles employment, working conditions, etc
@UrbFuturistDem Still super sticky in terms of navigating 1A. Private ownership is the pathway to content moderation on a meaningful scale. @USConst_Amend_I any thoughts? Would it violate you for a publicly owned platform to moderate content-based speech?
The First Amendment@s_bosbach yes it would