Re:Tim Cook Defends Parler App Suspension: ‘We Don’t Conside...
by thu2111 on Monday January 18, 2021 @05:22AM
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But the standards being promoted here, Twitter and Facebook itself would clearly fail at. None of them claim to have instant perfectly precise moderation and most of them got planet-scale when they had basically no company-driven moderation at all, just user flags. The double standards here are plain to see :(
Re:Tim Cook Defends Parler App Suspension: ‘We Don’t Conside...
by throwaway19937 on Monday January 18, 2021 @05:20PM
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This isn't a double standard; it's just the natural tendency of rules, regulations, and market requirements to become stricter over time. It's quite common for early entrants to a market to get away with behavior that late arrivals are accountable for.
Facebook and Twitter probably couldn't be introduced today with the level of moderation they had at the time.
The bicycle is a nontechnical example of this phenomenon. You couldn't bring it to market today because of liability concerns and safety laws.
Has anyone been saying otherwise? I've always heard it reported that violent/bigoted posts stayed up too long, thus leading to the platform being awash in them. Not that there's literally zero moderation, but just too little.
Parler's own marketing works against their reputation here, since they liked to talk up being a 'free speech app', which implies a more 'anything goes' attitude towards moderation.
> Parler notes 3 times AWS complained about specific messages and Parler removed all of them within 24 hours each time, some within a few hours and each time AWS noted they were satisfied.
I mean c'mon man, that's just not great reasoning. Of course they're going to quickly remove the things AWS specifically points out to them. The real issue is how quick they are to remove rule-breaking content in general.
A better test would be AWS employees or whoever noting rule-breaking content themselves, then seeing how long it takes Parler to remove them. Or simply seeing how common rule-breaking content is to start with.