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If your blog required a “real ID” to post content rather than allowed anonymous comments, would we have the same problem? The premise of the GP (and one I share
by dcow 5y ago
If your blog required a “real ID” to post content rather than allowed anonymous comments, would we have the same problem? The premise of the GP (and one I share) is that the internet’s content moderation problems are symptoms of default anonymity. Twitter is default anonymous so nobody’s reputation is a stake when they teach a neural net hooked up to the twitter firehose to be a racist asshole.
- andrewflnr 5y agoFacebook comments can still be a tire fire. It's not the anonymity, it's the lack of consequences.
- dcow 5y agoIn my experience, Facebook comment threads (while still awful at times) are very different from e.g. YouTube or Tumbler or Twitter comments. Sure they still devolve and become a mess sometimes, but from what I remember there was noticeably less "hard" trolling (i.e. 4chan style derogatory) on Facebook. People still light troll Facebook but not so much in the explicitly derogatory and assholish ways done in communities where expendable identities exist. In any event, because people use real IDs on Facebook, we can and do impose consequences. Remember when everybody used their first name middle name so jobs wouldn't see their underage party pics with substance use?... And then when everyones parents and grandparents joined people just stopped posting that stuff altogether and facebook "grew up".