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Internet companies and their defenders sometimes insist that this kind of problem is impossible to solve—that the scale of the web makes a certain amount of bad
by ilamont 5y ago
Internet companies and their defenders sometimes insist that this kind of problem is impossible to solve—that the scale of the web makes a certain amount of bad behavior impossible to stop.
Impossible? Which Internet companies have made such a claim?
And who is their “defenders” that feels so compelled to step for the likes of Amazon?
- bostik 5y agoAll of them? Not in those words, because "impossible" is a term a corporate PR machine will not want to throw around, but you will see the phrase "a very hard problem" quite often. And for a good reason. Please read: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191111/23032743367/masnicks-impossibility-theorem-content-moderation-scale-is-impossible-to-do-well.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191111/23032743367/masni... Add the facts that norms vary across cultures, and that laws vary across jurisdictions. But this only relates to user-generated content. Amazon is allowing bait-and-switch across the board, with physical products and their categories. That's not a problem with content moderation, Amazon has a problem with accountability.