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.
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".