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Re:The War on General Purpose Computing by kelnos on Sunday December 04, 2022 @02:42PM (#33856984)
Magazines have full editorial control, though. Think of it like a fully-moderated platform. Nothing gets through without positive approval of the magazine editors. With a platform like Twitter, it's default-allow, and people have to see (and block/report) much of the bad content to get rid of it.
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Re:The War on General Purpose Computing by ip26 on Sunday December 04, 2022 @05:56PM (#33858929)
Yeah, but as soon as there is a take down mechanism, anything on the site is implicitly endorsed, even if only weakly.

“You’ll take down CSAM but not spam/incitement to violence/revenge porn!?”

Further, user reporting as your only form of detection doesn’t scale well or protect your reputation.

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Re:The War on General Purpose Computing by dbfx on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:40PM (#33859850)
No, it's not. csam is illegal and so is revenge porn, the platform could even be in favor of csam and revenge porn and they'd still need to follow the law.
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Re:The War on General Purpose Computing by ip26 on Sunday December 04, 2022 @08:09PM (#33860069)
Ok, I suppose if the takedown was only ever used to enforce the law, then there’s no editorial oversight. But that isn’t any major platform, past or present. Even 4chan is moderated.
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