Mike Masnick ✅Feb 23, 2023

So I was mostly offline (and therefore, off Mastodon) for the past 3 days, and catching up with stuff now... and am NOT AT ALL SURPRISED that yet another centralized social media platform (Spoutable) is speed running the content moderation learning curve. This ALWAYS happens.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/

FWIW, it happens with fediverse instances too, but at least here we have choices, and it creates incentives for instance admins to be better.

Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve

It’s kind of a rite of passage for any new social media network. They show up, insist that they’re the “platform for free speech” without quite understanding what that actua…

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Show threadMeryem Fuat
@mmasnick This is fabulous! I always wondered why people who post awful stuff think that freedom means we are compelled to read it; and if we don't, they complain about being secretly shadow banned. I think that was the basic problem that Elon thought he was solving with his free-for-all approach to freedom of speech.
Feb 24, 2023 at 1:11amWeb