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Too many people are confusing "censorship" and "content moderation". Content moderation is when you determine what is published on your platform. Censorship is
by timoth3y 5y ago
Too many people are confusing "censorship" and "content moderation".
Content moderation is when you determine what is published on your platform. Censorship is when someone else tells you want can be published on your platform.
Substack is probably making the right business decision, but the claim in this article is completely backwarrds.
Trust 100% requires content moderation. Good scientific journals are trusted because they exercise extremely tight control over what gets published. Good news sources are trusted because they moderate content and exercise strict editorial control. Facebook is a untrusted cesspool of misinformation specifically because they moderate so lightly.
The idea that trust comes from lack of content moderation or editorial control is logically and empirically wrong.
- zozbot234 5y ago> Trust 100% requires content moderation. Good scientific journals are trusted because they exercise extremely tight control over what gets published. Editorial endorsement and evaluation of content can be entirely decoupled from publishing. This is what "overlay journals" based on repositories like ArXiV do: they provide independent endorsement of papers published elsewhere.