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> Which of them do you propose is the appropriate model for moderating YouTube or Reddit? Neither? People are proposing we develop a new model that reflects th

• AnthonyMouse 7y ago
  But then what's the new model? There are three options. You can have a platform which is completely unmoderated, but then it's overrun with spam. You can demand a level of accuracy which is impossible at the scale of a many-to-many communications platform (which de facto prohibits them). Or you let people try to moderate them, have them filter out 95% of the garbage, and don't punish them for the 5% they inevitably miss.
  • akersten 7y ago
    > Or you let people try to moderate them, have them filter out 95% of the garbage, and don't punish them for the 5% they inevitably miss. Yes? That sounds great? That's how it currently works today?
    • AnthonyMouse 7y ago
      That's the one you take away if you require a choice between having any moderation at all and having a safe harbor, because without the safe harbor the 5% they get wrong subjects them to liability.