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Re:A Symbol Neo-Nazis Use to Target Jews Online by skybrian on Thursday June 02, 2016 @07:47PM (#11827185)
It doesn't matter if you think it's your responsibility or not. A fundamental rule of the Internet is that spam and abuse make everything suck.

Therefore all large Internet sites (and some small ones) have to moderate or police it one way or another. Even if they started out fairly libertarian, eventually they'll get dragged in, or else they'll lose users.

(4chan is the closest thing to an exception, and even they have rules. Most websites don't want to be 4chan.)

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Re:A Symbol Neo-Nazis Use to Target Jews Online by _audakel on Friday June 03, 2016 @12:37PM (#11831354)
That is so interesting. I wonder if there is a way you could model that over time / give a rating. You could have a large list or controversial words (prob better would be doing NLP phrases) and look at all content of a site has over time, and get a count of how much "controversial content" it contains.

To get the list of what is controversial you could look at the content guidelines from top sites around the world and compile a list.

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