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This is reprehensibly crass. As a former CEO of Reddit, the author is uniquely qualified to know just how difficult and intractable a problem online harassment

by mundo 8y ago

This is reprehensibly crass. As a former CEO of Reddit, the author is uniquely qualified to know just how difficult and intractable a problem online harassment is; to portray it as having a straightforward solution, which could be implemented tomorrow if only the evil Zuckerbergs and Dorseys of the world weren't so greedy, is baldly dishonest and irresponsible.

ABCLAW 8y ago
Do you recall Ms. Pao's time at reddit and the actions which took place at the time? She lived this. Directly. She dealt with this. Directly. It may be intractable to go 100->0 on harassment. Sure. But what if you could go to 50? To 20? Is the difficulty in stamping out all harassment enough of a hurdle to not try stamping any of it out? Or is it just window dressing to ignore the issue. She says it's the latter. If anything, her story makes it clear that it really isn't that hard to identify groups and communities that breed harassment then take action against them.
charlesism 8y ago
> difficult and intractable a problem online harassment is She is saying is that it's only "difficult and intractable" if you operate a social network the way they all do: "engagement" above any other consideration. I don't see a whole lot of calls for genocide on any Apple property. I don't see a whole lot of calls for genocide on HN. Use Twitter in Germany and suddenly the bulk of the NeoNazi tweets disappear. She's right. Whether you like censorship or hate censorship, it just isn't hard to implement it an order or two of magnitude more effectively than what we have now. So the next time some journalist writes an article about one of these social networks, it would be great if they got it right. They prattle on and on about how lost Google and Facebook are when it comes to text-filtering and data-mining. It's silly.

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This is reprehensibly crass. As a former CEO of Reddit, the author is uniquely qualified to know just how difficult and intractable a problem online harassment

by mundo 8y ago

ABCLAW 8y ago
Do you recall Ms. Pao's time at reddit and the actions which took place at the time? She lived this. Directly. She dealt with this. Directly. It may be intractable to go 100->0 on harassment. Sure. But what if you could go to 50? To 20? Is the difficulty in stamping out all harassment enough of a hurdle to not try stamping any of it out? Or is it just window dressing to ignore the issue. She says it's the latter. If anything, her story makes it clear that it really isn't that hard to identify groups and communities that breed harassment then take action against them.
charlesism 8y ago
> difficult and intractable a problem online harassment is She is saying is that it's only "difficult and intractable" if you operate a social network the way they all do: "engagement" above any other consideration. I don't see a whole lot of calls for genocide on any Apple property. I don't see a whole lot of calls for genocide on HN. Use Twitter in Germany and suddenly the bulk of the NeoNazi tweets disappear. She's right. Whether you like censorship or hate censorship, it just isn't hard to implement it an order or two of magnitude more effectively than what we have now. So the next time some journalist writes an article about one of these social networks, it would be great if they got it right. They prattle on and on about how lost Google and Facebook are when it comes to text-filtering and data-mining. It's silly.