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Well, for what it's worth this conversation has nothing to do with state mandated moderation. I think it's completely defensible to have a strong stance against
by ethanbond 4y ago
Well, for what it's worth this conversation has nothing to do with state mandated moderation. I think it's completely defensible to have a strong stance against state moderation (given the various other forms of obscene power the state has) and have a fairly free-market view of service providers choosing to moderate what flows through their own servers.
- pas 4y agoright, let's replace (and/or expand) "state mandated" with "mob mandated", the result is still the same, we still have the meta problem of very different treatment of the same content based on a sudden attention surge leads to very sub-optimal moderation overall. (because it incentivizes stakeholders to dig in to either extremes if there's no way to smoothly transition between them. ie. Cloudflare can only drop someone once. similarly reputation of big companies/providers can only bear so much stand for principles, so they eventually just opt to filter out everything that's not super-safe, that's why YT is removing actual ITsec educational videos, etc.)