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Steffen ChristensenThis is a fantastic bloody article by @mmasnick for Techdirt and you should read it if you care about who controls your speech.
Don't miss this great article by @annaleen in 2021 explaining where all this is coming from, either!
https://mastodon.social/@Wikisteff/110202348186481541
https://mastodon.social/@Wikisteff/110202348186481541
newsorpigalThe problem with content moderation is that it gives these corporations and the government enormous power. I would much rather endure some spam than to give them this incredible power.
Mike Masnick ✅@newsorpigal @Wikisteff that is not how any of this works.
If you don't moderate, you don't exist.
@mmasnick @newsorpigal I really love your idea of the content moderation learning curve, Mike.
A stronger statement of it is that every platform either learns it and thrives, or fails to learn it and dies like Parler.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/17/parlers-new-owner-shuts-down-site-no-reasonable-person-believes-twitter-for-conservatives-is-a-viable-business-model/
A stronger statement of it is that every platform either learns it and thrives, or fails to learn it and dies like Parler.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/17/parlers-new-owner-shuts-down-site-no-reasonable-person-believes-twitter-for-conservatives-is-a-viable-business-model/
Parler’s New Owner Shuts Down Site: ‘No Reasonable Person Believes Twitter For Conservatives Is A Viable Business Model’
Ah, remember Parler? They were the first of the “alternative” social media companies targeting the Trumpist crowd, in which I pointed out that their whole “we don’t moderate” schtick wasn’t going t…
Bredroll@Wikisteff @mmasnick @newsorpigal just like learning spam filters get poisoned by some classes of spam so does any kind of automated moderation to the point it either blocks real stuff or just gets a abandoned. My Facebook feed is now 80% links and groups that consist mainly of autogenerated "rage-bate" websites that pretend to be a small news outlet. It's just do easy to make these now, the SnR is truly horrible
Steve Rehrauer@Wikisteff @mmasnick Oof. He really did not handle that well.
John Leach@Wikisteff @mmasnick are we really sure the CEO doesn't realize he's running an internet nazi bar? because, I think you can make some good money running internet Nazi bars.