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This last summer with the BLM protests the local town FB group got flooded with people behaving badly and eventually the moderators had to step in and effective
by cujo 6y ago
This last summer with the BLM protests the local town FB group got flooded with people behaving badly and eventually the moderators had to step in and effectively ban a bunch of people and prevent discussion on the topic for a time.
This wasn't a group that catered to Nazis. It was a group that asked about the best pizza in town and pointed out when the high school was putting on a play. To say it caught the mods off-guard would be an understatement.
Mods had to step in and save the day, but it basically requires someone to watch the service 24/7 during heated times as the threads blow up quickly. They don't take days or weeks to warm up. It just takes an active community and some catalyst event.
This was effectively just a forum. It happened in a FB group, but could have just as easily been some local dude hosting a phpbb forum. Same thing.
So this is the thing I keep coming back to: why would anyone ever dip their toes in user-created content if 230 is changed/repealed? It's all risk at that point, especially for folks who would aren't quitting their day job for it.
Or to put another way, with 230 as it is, Trump can't use twitter/fb/etc, but he can spin up his own phpbb and start his own community there. Why isn't that ok?