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> In my view the only proper way to handle content moderation is that every user of these “free“ social media platforms over the age of 18 should should be requ
by cryptoz 6y ago
> In my view the only proper way to handle content moderation is that every user of these “free“ social media platforms over the age of 18 should should be required to moderate some proportion every month to understand what’s actually going on.
Does that mean no vetting at all of the moderators? Anybody can become a moderator? But then you have QAnon in large numbers moderating content on like the CNN Facebook page or something? I really, really, really don't think that is a "proper" or even tenable moderation solution.
There are too many people who would abuse the moderation power. Moderation should at least be a paid position, paid well in fact, and vetted before allowed to moderate. Otherwise it will be worse than before.
- tomcam 6y agoThose are great points. I believe that there should be essentially no censorship at all, subject to First Amendment restrictions. Posts could be hidden to people based on age, political, or other preferences, but would always be accessible to adult users willing to sign a waiver. I believe very much that bad material no matter how disgusting is best handled through public exposure, not censorship.
- mdoms 6y agoHow do you deal with misinformation? Anti vax misinformation could literally devastate an entire society if given enough oxygen. Are your free speech ideals more important than the health of an entire economy and hundreds of thousands of lives at risk?
- jwlake 6y agoThis reminds me of a line from an NPR story. It said that "false" information spread twice as fast and twice as far as "true" information on twitter. No interrogation of why it spread was investigated. It immediately made me wonder, maybe people just thought "false" information was a whole lot funnier, and hence sharable. The problem with misinformation is it vaguely doesn't exist. There's parody, non-orthodoxy, true things people disagree with for political reason, unproven things, urban myths, rumors, etc etc. These are all classes of information people blame all the ills of society on.
- mcphage 6y ago> The problem with misinformation is it vaguely doesn't exist. You don't think that people lie on the internet?
- intended 6y agoBy the time these papers are distilled to an NPR report, its simplified to an extent that nuance is lost. There are many papers on this, which will answer your question. The transmission cascades and cascade sizes for false info are studied. Misinformation for example is repeated, like a nuclear feedback loop, or more like gossip being repeated between people till it becomes a “fact”. Science related info propagates through the network only a few times, as if people who read it understand it and move on.
- cryptoz 6y agoThe first amendment protects you from hosting content you don't want to host. Hosting providers must be allowed to remove content they don't want there or their rights are directly violated. Do you think that a site should be forced to host other people's vile content?