Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run the Content Moderation Learning Curve

Re:Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run the Content Moderation Le... by buzzdenver on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:10PM (#33834301)

Elon went from free speech absolutist to "Twitter aims to serve center 80% of people, who wish to learn, laugh & engage in reasoned debate." Quite the u-turn. I'm sure he put zero thought into that 80% figure, but even banning 2% instead of 20% is a shockingly huge number.

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Re:Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run the Content Moderation Le... by _greim_ on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:39PM (#33834784)

It's unclear what "serving the center 80% means" but I doubt it means banning the remaining 20%.

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Re:Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run the Content Moderation Le... by new2this on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:31PM (#33834645)

I remember some stat that the loudest voices are the 8% on either end of the political spectrum. I couldn't find where I heard that, but Pew has some data that mirrors that.

I think that 20% is coming from this:

"The overall share of Americans who express consistently conservative or consistently liberal opinions has doubled over the past two decades from 10% to 21%"[1]

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2014/06/12/political-po...

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Re:Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run the Content Moderation Le... by memish on Friday December 02, 2022 @02:07PM (#33835222)

Paul Graham says it's more like 90 or 95%.

"You could probably expand that 80% to 90% or even 95%. The extremists seem like they're more numerous than they are, because they talk so much and so loudly, but they're really a tiny minority." https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1598720168737345539

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