Some people have been preaching #SafetyByDesign principles. I would like to point out a huge problem with one of them.
Namely, the principle that profiles should be hidden by default.
This feature exists on Reddit right now. You know who uses it most? Dishonest people, who use the feature to conceal their history of dishonesty.
This allows them to do the same thing as the snake oil salesmen of the Wild West, going from town to town and running the same dishonest scheme over and over again.
Another “safety by design” principle is that platforms are to somehow automatically block all harmful content before it is posted.
Billions of dollars and decades of work have already been done on that, and it all failed miserably. Policy-obeying content gets randomly censored and its innocent authors banned. Bad actors speak in paper-thin euphemisms and get away scot-free.
It's impossible. Completely, absolutely impossible.
@yildo @argv_minus_one interesting.
banned from reddit does seem a bit "they wouldnt let me back in the prison after releasing me" but I fully appreciate change is rattling.
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