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Right this is the entire point about how crossing the line poisons the well. Which is why they would have to be very clear that their policy is to only respond
by anm89 5y ago
Right this is the entire point about how crossing the line poisons the well.
Which is why they would have to be very clear that their policy is to only respond to legal orders for takedowns and nothing else.
- duxup 5y agoI think the issue then is that the platform becomes ... unusable. The scale of spam of all kinds would render the service useless. Even inaction would be interpreted as part of the game ... and you're in the game again.
- anm89 5y agoYou could ultimately be right that they took the better of the two options and that this path would have killed them. I personally disagree. I think there is also more Grey here. They could have de prioritized things in the algorithm to encourage the direction of the community without explicitly depltforming anyone or blocking\removing content. I think its possible that they could have achieved a lot of what they wanted with this method while avoiding poisoning the well.