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The "doing damage all over the world" framing makes no sense here. Blocking a link on your own website is not an externality by definition.
by root_axis 3y ago
The "doing damage all over the world" framing makes no sense here. Blocking a link on your own website is not an externality by definition.
- barbazoo 3y agoThink of Myanmar https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
- lupire 3y agoSo, Facebook allowing content is bad, and Facebook not allowing content is also bad?
- 3np 3y agoWell, yeah. No entity should be in the centrally authoritative position that Meta alongside a handful of other companies is. Moderation and filtering needs to be decoupled from content hosting and authn/authz. This is a major part making me optimistic about bluesky/atproto.
- rightbyte 3y agoAre you implying that would be some kind of fallacy?
- krainboltgreene 3y agoIn most cases I would agree, but in this case they actually did do reputational damage. There are people asking the site owners why the site is considered insecure.
- root_axis 3y agoI didn't consider that aspect. I admit that does sound frustrating from the perspective of the site owner.