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Think about how that would work in reverse. Lets say you post something fake, like 5G causes covid. And any response that calls out your post as being fake, you

by AaronM 6y ago

Think about how that would work in reverse. Lets say you post something fake, like 5G causes covid. And any response that calls out your post as being fake, you just hide.

loceng 6y ago
Which is why you need a "God" level of moderation (or really just parenting, parents watching the child in the playground as we all try to understand and master consciousness) for every platform - where they have the ability to add a warning tag/comment - or moderate that person off of platform either as a timeout or permanently; and then having many platforms that are privately owned deciding how they govern is how we de-risk government tyrannical control mechanisms being in place that then apply to all platforms. And then users decide/"vote" with what platform or network they align with based on if they use it or not; the issue of allowing users and their networks to being easily mobile/data and network operability is important then to reduce the friction of this being possible. And then the layers of infrastructure are additional layers of decentralized control mechanisms, e.g. Amazon/AWS kicking off Parler, Parler then needing to eventually find infrastructure that was supportive of their lack of moderation against calls for violence, etc. At least then lines are drawn and we can see who's allying with who, and people can respond or behave accordingly.
- nradov 6y ago
  Who pays the god moderators, and what happens when they abuse their power to bias the discussion?
  - loceng 6y ago
    Then people move to a different platform; what's the alternative - you let government choose or you allow wild west where no moderation is allowed?
amelius 6y ago
Well, you could still downvote other people's posts. So if this happened on HN, the subthread probably wouldn't survive long.

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Think about how that would work in reverse. Lets say you post something fake, like 5G causes covid. And any response that calls out your post as being fake, you

by AaronM 6y ago

Think about how that would work in reverse. Lets say you post something fake, like 5G causes covid. And any response that calls out your post as being fake, you just hide.

loceng 6y ago
Which is why you need a "God" level of moderation (or really just parenting, parents watching the child in the playground as we all try to understand and master consciousness) for every platform - where they have the ability to add a warning tag/comment - or moderate that person off of platform either as a timeout or permanently; and then having many platforms that are privately owned deciding how they govern is how we de-risk government tyrannical control mechanisms being in place that then apply to all platforms. And then users decide/"vote" with what platform or network they align with based on if they use it or not; the issue of allowing users and their networks to being easily mobile/data and network operability is important then to reduce the friction of this being possible. And then the layers of infrastructure are additional layers of decentralized control mechanisms, e.g. Amazon/AWS kicking off Parler, Parler then needing to eventually find infrastructure that was supportive of their lack of moderation against calls for violence, etc. At least then lines are drawn and we can see who's allying with who, and people can respond or behave accordingly.
- nradov 6y ago
  Who pays the god moderators, and what happens when they abuse their power to bias the discussion?
  - loceng 6y ago
    Then people move to a different platform; what's the alternative - you let government choose or you allow wild west where no moderation is allowed?
amelius 6y ago
Well, you could still downvote other people's posts. So if this happened on HN, the subthread probably wouldn't survive long.