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One possible solution: Make the providers of web services liable for what their users post so they can’t ignore the problem for that sweet ad revenue. Possible

One possible solution: Make the providers of web services liable for what their users post so they can’t ignore the problem for that sweet ad revenue. Possible downside: Providers become overly cautious and pro-actively delete more than necessary. Possible upside: Lots and lots of small, tight-knit (and healthy) communities crop up because Twitter, Tumblr & Co. die.

hh3k0 8y ago
> Possible downside: Providers become overly cautious and pro-actively delete more than necessary. Exactly what happened in Germany when the new social media hate speech law (Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz) was introduced. > He said that the NetzDG incentivizes social-media companies to “delete in doubt”—to remove any content that seems like it might be illegal […] The law leaves it up to companies like Facebook and Twitter, with their armies of moderators newly installed in Germany, to decide within 24 hours whether a post is “manifestly” illegal and remove it—a decision that would ordinarily take weeks in a German court. More: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/germany-facebook-afd/560435/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/ge...