Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext...
by erichocean on Monday February 17, 2020 @07:36PM
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> Which of them do you propose is the appropriate model for moderating YouTube or Reddit?
Neither? People are proposing we develop a new model that reflects the new situation we face. Sounds reasonable to meβ¦
Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext...
by AnthonyMouse on Monday February 17, 2020 @07:44PM
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But then what's the new model? There are three options.
You can have a platform which is completely unmoderated, but then it's overrun with spam.
You can demand a level of accuracy which is impossible at the scale of a many-to-many communications platform (which de facto prohibits them).
Or you let people try to moderate them, have them filter out 95% of the garbage, and don't punish them for the 5% they inevitably miss.
Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext...
by akersten on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:51PM
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> Or you let people try to moderate them, have them filter out 95% of the garbage, and don't punish them for the 5% they inevitably miss.
Yes? That sounds great? That's how it currently works today?
Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext...
by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @01:05AM
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That's the one you take away if you require a choice between having any moderation at all and having a safe harbor, because without the safe harbor the 5% they get wrong subjects them to liability.
The problem is neither of them holds the middle ground.
Telecoms allow everything. Some of it is bad. Not having the bad stuff filtered is not great, but that's okay specifically because it can be filtered by somebody else. You don't need Comcast to do spam filtering on your email because Gmail can do it.
Publishers allow almost nothing. Most of what they publish is first-party. The editor of The New York Times can have their article published in The New York Times, but you generally can't.
Neither of those entity types primarily host user-generated content. Which of them do you propose is the appropriate model for moderating YouTube or Reddit?