Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support

Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by hinkley on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:09PM (#25737015)

As someone who is in theory trying to write software for community-sourced documentation and advice, I've been dragging my heels for years watching things play out on reddit and facebook and twitter and now these buffoons and I just don't know if I'm up to the task. My best defense seems to be trying to keep the niche as small as possible and still be worth my while to do the work, and to be perfectly honest, as 'realistic' as I like to be, saying "keep it small" to myself drains quite a bit of motivation out of me.

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by danans on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:23PM (#25738353)

> "keep it small" to myself drains quite a bit of motivation out of me.

Just moderate the platform to remove content that is an incitement to violence or the commission of violent crime. That's a pretty low bar to meet.

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by hinkley on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:58PM (#25740816)

So just read and judge every piece of text entered into the whole platform, 24/7, 365.2425 days a year, both in and out of context.

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by danans on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:06PM (#25741747)

> So just read and judge every piece of text entered into the whole platform

No. Not at all.

We're software engineers, right? Make the machines do the heavy lifting.

Create a simple keyword based alerting mechanism for known inflammatory language in the languages that you support. There are resources to help you make this easier in multiple languages, i.e. https://hatespeechdata.com/

Add a moderation system for your users to flag abusive content.

Until you grow to a huge size, or unless your platform is courting violence promoting content, there should be a relatively small amount of content you need to manually review and remove.

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by nwmcsween on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:03AM (#25742532)

twitter did this, IIRC they needed to turn it off as it was flagging almost all republicans

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by danans on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:17AM (#25742616)

I seriously doubt that Twitter has no system that internally flags potentially abusive or violent tweets using machine automated classifiers. This stuff is table stakes nowadays for any major service that accepts user generated data.

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