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> I've seen many small forums self-destruct Too bad, so sad. The health and growth of your channel is not the network's problem, unless downtime and latency ar

> I've seen many small forums self-destruct Too bad, so sad. The health and growth of your channel is not the network's problem, unless downtime and latency are your issues. If you can't solve the squabbles in your #furry/lgbt/conservative/socialist sub community, you can't expect me to come and declare you "the winner of the internet fight" and banish the losers. Do that yourself, if you're the chanop. If you aren't, start another channel. > Misinformation is terribly difficult to combat. Still not the network's problem. Last I checked, my role was providing a service, not arbitrating truth. > and can lead to real harm to real people. Mmn, aaand still not the network's problem. (If said harm even exists. Most times, it's just "emotional distress", or some indirect butterfly effect we want to blame for things like Trump, instead of looking at the direct causes.) If there is harm, it's the local, state, and federal government's problem. Not the service administrators. > A ministry of truth is never a good idea But it's what you're calling for. You try to make it seem virtuous by limiting the scope to certain "undeniable facts" like racism, slavery, the holocaust. Or worse, I've seen people trying to push it off to some Mechanical Turk, like Machine Learning. The computer will tell us if it's racist! It will soon grow to include vaccines, global warming, and a litany of other "social ills to be fixed" that just need to be accepted as truth.

jayess 8y ago
Agreed. And how do you define racism? Sure, it's discrimination based on race. What if I oppose affirmative action? Then I'm called a racist!
Const-me 8y ago
> If there is harm, it's the local, state, and federal government's problem When people living in the jurisdiction who elected that government will have enough, the government will shut down, block, or heavily regulate these networks. The internet is global, they can’t prosecute users. When that will happen, it will become the network's problem. Even if the networks themselves don’t feel any moral responsibility for that real harm, it’s in their best interest to do something.

jayess 8y ago

Agreed. And how do you define racism? Sure, it's discrimination based on race. What if I oppose affirmative action? Then I'm called a racist!

Const-me 8y ago

> If there is harm, it's the local, state, and federal government's problem When people living in the jurisdiction who elected that government will have enough, the government will shut down, block, or heavily regulate these networks. The internet is global, they can’t prosecute users. When that will happen, it will become the network's problem. Even if the networks themselves don’t feel any moral responsibility for that real harm, it’s in their best interest to do something.