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Yes, exactly. And deciding legality should be done better than current automatic moderations that punish innocent content without a working appeals process.
by foobarian 5y ago
Yes, exactly. And deciding legality should be done better than current automatic moderations that punish innocent content without a working appeals process.
- bdamm 5y agoRequiring that content be sourced from actual humans in good faith, and identifying people violating terms of service by spamming with puppet bots would be a good start. If the service is being operated by a national government, then you could require posters to prove residence or citizenship. But would anyone really want to use such a service? Could it possibly be even produced or operated efficiently? Once you put strict legal requirements on the operating entity it will get very slow, expensive, and user unfriendly.
- cyberge99 5y agoThe USA used to have a Fairness Doctrine. It required political viewpoints to have equal air time. It made politics much more boring. As it should be.
- dragonwriter 5y agoEr, politics in the period of 1949-1985 was not, generally, “more boring” than 1985 to present. The last few years maybe have achieved the undesirable level of not-boring that was generally the case through most of the 1950s, 1960s, and much of the 1970s, but certainly overall the post-Fairness Doctrine period was more boring than the Fairness Doctrine period. (The Neoliberal Consensus is probably a bigger factor than the FD on that, though; it’s pretty hard to attribute much of anything about the overall tenor of politics to the FD.)