They chose media and political pages, found 3% of comments were removed (without determining the reason for removal), and then had lawyers review the deleted co

They chose media and political pages, found 3% of comments were removed (without determining the reason for removal), and then had lawyers review the deleted comments, finding most of them fell into the catch-all category defined as follows: > Comments fell into this category if meaning could be interpreted from them, they were not illegal, did not contain linguistic attacks or fell outside the scope of the report (e.g. CSAM, revenge porn, marketing). If I'm reading this right, this contains content such as "Buy Coke!" Is this useful data? I certainly don't think it supports their stated position: > In a world that works the way policymakers intend, we would expect to find that most deleted comments constitute illegal speech. I'm not sure I agree with this position in the abstract either. https://futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Preventing-Torrents-of-Hate-or-Stifling-Free-Expression-Online-The-Future-of-Free-Speech.pdf https://futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Prev...