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 threadrrgFeb 23, 2023
@mmasnick Any pointers where to read about that Spoutable drama?
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Feb 23, 2023
@rrg there's a lot, but this is the first one i found that covers some of the basics. https://critteranne.medium.com/is-spoutible-fighting-with-romance-writers-and-fans-86b6ecdd7a1d
Is Spoutible Fighting With Romance Writers and Fans?

Has the owner of Spoutible become the most hated man in Romancelandia? Or is it all just a big misunderstanding?

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Show threadmconnorFeb 24, 2023
@mmasnick @rrg they didn’t make it over here, but @questauthority has been digging into the legal bits and… there’s a lot.
Show threadMike Dunford

@mconnor @mmasnick @rrg

I barely scratched the surface. Their TOS are a turducken of dumb. There's the internal contradiction I found yesterday. Then there's the lack of a "ban for any or no reason." Which, given that they're banning people for Community Policy violations, is extra fun because the TOS don't condition, or even require, Community Policy compliance (they just "kindly ask" for compliance). Etc, etc, etc

Feb 24, 2023 at 4:45pmWeb
Show threadmconnorFeb 24, 2023

@questauthority @mmasnick @rrg so it’s the legal equivalent of the $70 PHP script it’s running on. Consistency at least!

Our TOS will be open licensed. Maybe they can steal it…