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Does the centralization make the situation worse? I agree that there's probably a larger total number of illegal materials shared on large sites, because they g
by Manuel_D 5y ago
Does the centralization make the situation worse? I agree that there's probably a larger total number of illegal materials shared on large sites, because they get the most traffic. I'm less convinced that that the same amount of user activity fragmented across a hundred different companies would see more effective enforcement. Remember, stats about how over 90% of CSE material reports to law enforcement come from Facebook is testament to how effective the reporting infrastructure is. I've also read articles about how Bing and Duck Duck Go are not as effective at filtering abuse material than Google - which is not an dig against the former, but an byproduct of lower available resources. I don't think decentralization would improve that.
- shadowgovt 5y agoThe centralization is a two-sided coin. It provides a larger target where failure of the system to regulate content can impact more users. But it also provides economies of scale in the regulation apparatus having outsized impact when it is improved. The tricky question is whether the mute grows proportional to the megaphone.