Re:Thinking About Decentralized Communities
by notriddle on Sunday December 13, 2020 @05:44PM
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I advocate for combating hate speech using the same methods that are used to combat any other form of abuse, such as spam or malware. On the centralized platforms, that role is filled by the centralized gatekeeper. On a decentralized platform, whatever plan you have to deal with manual spam can likely be used to block hate speech just as well.
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Re:Thinking About Decentralized Communities
by dane-pgp on Sunday December 13, 2020 @08:21PM
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> any other form of abuse, such as spam or malware.
The difference you seem to be overlooking is that basically no one wants to receive abuse, spam or malware, whereas (depending on who is doing the censoring and who is being censored) maybe 30% to 50% of users want to receive the messages that the censor decides is "hate speech".
I think what you're actually saying is "I advocate for centralized platforms combating hate speech provided their definition of that term happens to agree closely with my own".
Re:Thinking About Decentralized Communities
by notriddle on Sunday December 13, 2020 @10:33PM
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I'm not worried about the hangouts for the already converted. They can, and already do, use their own invite-only forums and encrypted chat systems for that.
I'm worried about radicalizing the moderates, which is comparable to spam and malware, because (by definition) it's not content that the moderate was seeking out, even if it is tangentially related to the content that they were originally looking for.