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That's basically saying that there should be no online public forums for discourse, anywhere, because the scale means they can't be properly moderated.
by vinceguidry 7y ago
That's basically saying that there should be no online public forums for discourse, anywhere, because the scale means they can't be properly moderated.
- Mirioron 7y agoAnd to take this further: it also means that there should be no right to public assembly, because you can't moderate what's said there either.
- anoncake 7y agoNo, not at all. The argument is that since Facebook moderates their site according to their own arbitrary standards, it's not a place for public assembly but a publication that Facebook is responsible for as if it were a newspaper. If they did not moderate, it would not apply.
- fghtr 7y agoMastodon can help here, because it is not a single entity, but a federation with independent moderations.
- 50656E6973 7y agoIndeed. Distributed design is the intelligent way to go when it comes to mass communications systems. Too much centralization leads to many such problems