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These platforms also censor private person-to-person messaging, between people who don't complain about the content. That's willing-speaker-to-willing-listener,
by gojomo 8y ago
These platforms also censor private person-to-person messaging, between people who don't complain about the content. That's willing-speaker-to-willing-listener, and being censored.
And, rather than trying to square-the-circle of global speech standards enforced by crude algorithms and rushed, underinformed low-wage moderators, they could make the remedy for unwanted speech simply unsubscribing/unfriending the source. And, for users who feel disturbed by broadcasts, FB could offer opt-in moderation circles – leaving all willing-listeners, with no grievances, unmolested by 3rd-party censorship.
Then, willing-speakers sending legal speech to willing-listeners wouldn't be collateral damage of their clumsy improvised censorship regimes.
- bduerst 8y agoThey do censor private messaging, but usually because it's used in targeted harassment of individuals. FB and others could also do as you said - make quarantine zones for specific prejudicial groups and their ideologies. Except time and again these groups have proven they're not wanting to stay in their own special self-moderated zones but are actively looking to broadcast. There are businesses built upon these prejudicial world views and deplatforming them just shows how they heavily they rely on broadcasting: https://mashable.com/article/milo-yiannopoulos-deplatforming-alex-jones/#KEAMJHM1tOqQ https://mashable.com/article/milo-yiannopoulos-deplatforming...
- gojomo 8y agoNo, they mostly block specific content, and often because they don't approve of the content by policy – not because the receiver has objected: https://www.wired.com/2010/11/facebook-link-blocking/ https://www.wired.com/2010/11/facebook-link-blocking/ https://444.hu/2016/11/14/facebook-is-reading-your-private-messages-and-blocks-you-if-it-doesnt-like-the-link-you-send-to-your-friends https://444.hu/2016/11/14/facebook-is-reading-your-private-m... (The intended receiver can be frustrated or confused that they couldn't receive the message their friend wanted to send.) And as you typically have to opt-in to messaging with someone new, they could wait for complaints rather than have content-based prior restraint. And, react to specific abuse with post-action blocking of the harasser, or quarantining-the-harasser as someone who'd need extra explicit acceptance before their messages are delivered.
- repolfx 8y agoThere is no broadcast on platforms like Facebook. Users always have the features to control what they see. As for "deplatforming", that means censorship and the history of it shows that it doesn't work in the long run. Those views don't go away and the totalitarianism required to implement it invariably destroys itself, making millions miserable along the way.
- zeckalpha 8y agoThe platforms may themselves be unwilling listeners.