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The Dirty Business of Hosting Hate Online
- mikece 7y agoThe definition of "hate" is a loose and subjective. Facebook's own internal studies show that hateful or "aggressively polarizing" posts garner the most user interaction, and that user interaction informs the psychographic profile of the users interacting -- which is data that Facebook sells to advertisers (and allegedly nation state actors). I like the idea of just letting people say what they want and only taking action when people engage in criminal speech (inciting violence or other illegal activity) and making liberal use of mute and block features in online platforms.