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You can't police society in a fair, reproducible, and representative way either, but how many people want to get rid of police entirely? Only a tiny fringe. So
by TulliusCicero 5y ago
You can't police society in a fair, reproducible, and representative way either, but how many people want to get rid of police entirely? Only a tiny fringe.
Sometimes the grossly imperfect solution is still an improvement on no solution at all.
"Don't bother policing misinformation" can't have methodological flaws the way moderating can, because it's just the absence of something. But ultimately what I think most people care about isn't soundness of methodology, but the results, and so the question you have to answer is: is a popular platform that makes no effort to control misinformation healthier for society than ones that do make that effort?