I’ve been working on an app that will ideally have many user posts, and this agenda scares me. You have these giant platforms that can afford to have entire de

I’ve been working on an app that will ideally have many user posts, and this agenda scares me. You have these giant platforms that can afford to have entire departments dedicated to manual moderation, and even then you get rags like The Verge or Vox writing about how awful it is these companies make people look at disturbing content. It’s like, well what’s the answer? If you let people post content to your service some of them are going to post bad stuff, it’s not avoidable. But as a solo founder who is hoping to bootstrap, what does this mean for me? My first phase of launching will be a very small group of creators that have been vetted personally and I have built a report system so I can be alerted when I do expand out. But I just don’t think it’s possible to hold these platforms responsible for content users post unless they show extreme negligence. Otherwise you’re adding yet another barrier to anybody being able to compete with big tech. And it’s not fair to the big platforms either. If you’re TikTok or YouTube and you have so much content being uploaded even if you have a team that can do manual review it’s very difficult to catch everything. So I’m glad for this ruling. As much as it sucks the web is so centralized now, pursuing this path of regulation will just make everything worse.