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Western social media seems to be one step behind the Chinese counterparts in terms of moderation strategies. Living streaming scene in China has already went t
by paradite 9y ago
Western social media seems to be one step behind the Chinese counterparts in terms of moderation strategies.
Living streaming scene in China has already went through this entire discussion and various forms of implementations on moderations of offensive and inappropriate contents sometime last year when it was rapidly growing.
Again with government intervention, it is so much faster and easier to enforce standards of moderations for private companies to follow.
- burkaman 9y agoI don't think government censorship is a step ahead or behind, it's more like a completely different path.
- paradite 9y agoWell it really depends on how you define the "appropriate scope of moderation". If you think controversial topics related to politics should not be subjected to moderation, then of course government censorship is not good.
- burkaman 9y agoI'm not saying it's good or bad, just that "a step ahead" doesn't really make sense to me. The path Facebook is heading down does not lead to government censorship, and the path American society is heading down doesn't either. That would require a huge shift in public opinion and philosophy.
- kyledrake 9y ago> Western social media seems to be one step behind the Chinese counterparts in terms of moderation strategies. I totally agree. We have the NSA so the total information awareness network is there, but we've really fallen behind China on using it to address suicide intervention.
- paradite 9y agoI understand your sarcasm but I believe you have misunderstood my point. I'm not talking about secret operations, but rather some transparent guidelines or laws issued by the government (legislative branch in the case of US? I'm not sure.) that are enforceable by private entities like Facebook.