Anonymity on the Internet Must Be Protected (1995)

Re:Anonymity on the Internet Must Be Protected (1995) by leetcrew on Thursday October 11, 2018 @08:14PM (#18198100)

> Obviously the best solution to this is to get back to a decentralized internet where no one site has more than 5% of the total users, but in the meantime the big players shouldn't be censoring anything. And if that so happens to make them less competitive against smaller sites without so many users they're expected not to restrict anything -- good.

i would like to see governments take more of a black/white stance toward "safe harbor" protections. if you need to moderate for the bottom line, you can do it, but this should come with additional liability.

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Re:Anonymity on the Internet Must Be Protected (1995) by AnthonyMouse on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:11PM (#18198893)

Then nobody would do it.

It isn't bad to have moderated spaces as long as they're actually run by individual communities and not amalgamated general purpose platforms imposing one party's views on everybody else.

As soon as you impose liability you go from moderation as a mechanism to weed out malice to essentially an editorial board that has to pre-approve everything as officially sanctioned by the platform. It excludes an important middle ground.

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