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Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well: - Any moderation policy will anger someone - Content moderation is inherently subjective - Errors at sc
by riffic 6y ago
Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well:
- Any moderation policy will anger someone
- Content moderation is inherently subjective
- Errors at scale result in many errors over time
Mike Masnick goes into this at depth here:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191111/23032743367/masnicks-impossibility-theorem-content-moderation-scale-is-impossible-to-do-well.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191111/23032743367/masni...
the three points above were taken from this video by Derek Caelin:
https://conf.tube/videos/watch/d8c8ed69-79f0-4987-bafe-84c01f38f966 https://conf.tube/videos/watch/d8c8ed69-79f0-4987-bafe-84c01...
- riffic 6y agoalso, if it isn't clear, moderation in some form is necessary otherwise you end up with cesspools like Gab, Voat, Parler, et cetera. Since the centralized model is obviously broken, perhaps try the opposite approach?