Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext...
by stale2002 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @03:52AM
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> how do you expect to get anyone to do it after you impose liability for getting it wrong?
I am suggesting that there would no platform wide moderation, but would instead be things like public block lists that users could voluntarily subscribe to.
IE, on Twitter, anyone could publish a "spam account list" or whatever, and people could choose whatever their preferred block list is.
Or they could choose not to follow any block lists, if they so desire.
Some blocklists might only block spammers, another might block Donald Trump, and another might block anyone who posts any swear words at all, and individual people would choose how they would like to view their content.
It's hard enough to get community moderators to sign up to do unpleasant work for no money, how do you expect to get anyone to do it after you impose liability for getting it wrong?
Actually, maybe there's something to this: Impose no liability on anybody for moderating as long as they're not moderating more than ten million users. If you are, the only way to avoid liability is to be a common carrier. Then you can actually have community moderation, but you can't have Zuckerberg deciding what a billion people don't get to see.