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Jeff Jarvis Dec 18, 2022

"Look, I fucking warned Elon that this is exactly how it would go. It’s how it always goes."
-- @mmasnick
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/16/elon-tries-badly-to-defend-the-banning-of-journalists-as-twitter-starts-blocking-links-mentions-of-mastodon/

Elon Tries (Badly) To Defend The Banning Of Journalists As Twitter Starts Blocking Links & Mentions Of Mastodon

Look, I fucking warned Elon that this is exactly how it would go. It’s how it always goes. Remember Parler? They promised that they would moderate “based off the FCC and the Supreme cou…

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James Dallas Dec 18, 2022

@jeffjarvis @mmasnick I myself have wondered "well, what happens when the first great content moderation war happens on Mastodon?" Because NO platform can be all things to all people.

But that's kind of the point; "John Mastodon" is a joke meme here precisely because Mastodon doesn't claim to have God Emperor Messiahs; it has thousands of individual instance mods who will just muddle through it and aren't making grandiose promises they can't keep about free speech.

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Martin Vermeer FCD Dec 18, 2022

@ad5nl @jeffjarvis @mmasnick Yep. Wars happen when there is only one power centre to contest, which is not the case here. There's a place in the fediverse for many different moderation regimes. Even Nazism: a lonesome island of awfulness.

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Martin Vermeer FCD

@ad5nl @jeffjarvis @mmasnick ... and there have been moderation 'wars' already: so some instances get blocked from some other ones, and life goes on. Unhappy users can not only switch instances (cumbersome) but have accounts on multiple instances, making 'hard' censorship pretty much impossible. Protection from all sorts of awfulness OTOH is robustly available for anyone needing it - though no set of rules can substitute for just being kind.