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see also - Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-th

• gregw2 4y ago
  Appreciate you posting this link, thank you! It is good recapitulation of why (particularly from a more legal-oriented layperson's standpoint) moderation is hard for an online platform. The crazy thing is even though that is a long list, you could probably double the size of that list of issues with whole other classes of issues. For example, that list is mostly focused on issues facing a platform with outside stakeholders making it difficult... then there are the inside stakeholders! Stuff like... "actually, arguments/controversy increases engagement/views/ads (and your/my bonus/stock)", "more regulation we have to comply with actually increases barriers to entry for new competitors", "I work here and have politics X but I sense our company acting with bias Y", "Our moderators are traumatized from looking at too much <porn/hate/etc>", etc. Besides a Reddit CEO posting on this, I would also pay money to see a CmdrTaco editorial on this topic...