IANAL, but as I understand it, the basic idea is like how saying sorry can be an admission of guilt/responsibility in some legal systems. Once you start moderat

IANAL, but as I understand it, the basic idea is like how saying sorry can be an admission of guilt/responsibility in some legal systems. Once you start moderating, you admit it's within your ability and it's your responsibility to do so (and usually at the scale most service providers it's not realistically feasible to moderate all content). So either you're responsible for moderating all the content, or you moderate non of it. Edit: clarity