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The solution to that is a rule set that users can select what they want and automated tagging. It is essentially opt-in moderation vs. chosen for you moderatio
by novok 4y ago
The solution to that is a rule set that users can select what they want and automated tagging. It is essentially opt-in moderation vs. chosen for you moderation. And it could become fairly sophisticated too! We are starting to see it in the form of subscribing to block lists on twitter.
Also in practice I think this is covered for %99 of cases people via an NSFW & NSFL tag system. That would be an NSFW art and thats that.
The children issue will boil down to parents are the real root user of their children's accounts and parents will have control over the tagging set for moderation until they are of age.
IMO I think most people are fine with mandatory labeling of goods, and actually welcome it because it gives more control and informed consent. It's the mandatory censorship that become the issue.
Abusive false labelling might become the next hot topic, but that is far smaller of a surface area.
- seattle_spring 4y agoIsn't that basically what happens now? Say I join a local city group. All posts to that group could be tagged with said #city in your world. Well right now anyone who is in one of these groups knows that many people come in and post lots of extremely charged national politics. They inevitably have their content removed as it's off-topic, not from Facebook but just from the city-specific group. The poster cries that their right to freedom of speech is being violated and that the mods are censoring them. So in your world, say the same person posts biased national political opinions and tags it with #city. Unless someone is moderating that tag, the tag becomes absolutely useless. It seems like how things work today, just with extra steps?
- novok 4y agoYou have a choice to filter out #city tagged items or not. And you can debate that a tag is incorrect as a matter of fact, much as you can debate if a food good does have sodium in it or not. And also tags are not singular, you can tag something #city #redteamblueteampolitics #highlyemotional #inflammatory and YOU get to choose if you want to see #highlyemotional content or not, not the platform. You get to choose if you want to follow the #rude #crazy person on Server Y, not your mastodon instance admin. Also a big part of this is matter of scale and choice. I don't think people care that much about a small subreddit and their bullshit most of the time, or petty facebook group politics. It's when the platform itself does the censoring, and when the platform is where %95 of content exists due to network effects and has user counts that are in the billions that it starts having a duty of neutrality. It's much like city roads or housing or similar, the people you filter out from housing and city roads have to be filtered out for dangerous damage to the infrastructure or people itself and that is it, otherwise you get into really bad political and discriminatory territory when you say black people or people of opinion Y can't buy housing here or drive on the roads. In this future system, you can also have alternative tagging systems, credit ratings for moderators, published AI models that tag client side, etc. I think it would be a very interesting marketplace of services!
- seattle_spring 4y agoSounds extremely subjective and time-intensive.