> What if the answer is to kill social-media-as-we-know-it? This is the real answer. If running a service requires paying people to look at awful, damaging mat

> What if the answer is to kill social-media-as-we-know-it? This is the real answer. If running a service requires paying people to look at awful, damaging material—stop running the service. It shouldn't exist. It doesn't need to. Absent things like Twitter and Facebook we'd find other ways to keep in touch with people who matter. Special Email clients that do most of the friends & family stuff that FB does but over email or whatever. Some new protocol. Progress on that kind of stuff only stalled because we've got the spyvertising- or VC-funded, moderator-harming services to compete with. Take those away and the void will be filled, with hardly a hiccup. "Well gee whiz we just can't run our service without doing this to our moderators, so I guess we have to"—no, you don't, period, at all. You can stop running your service, or live with hurting people and stop acting like you care.