Moderation Is Different From Censorship (if you want people to enjoy being on a platform, you need to make sure people see things they enjoy seeing even if other people have been posting other things too)
Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve (there are also other reasons, including legal reasons, why you can’t have a “censorship-free system” for very long; someone else already raised the point that if you build a “censorship-free system”, the government is eventually going to shut you down for hosting child porn)
Moderators can be chosen by the people, and changed more easily.
Machine algorithms are a black box of uncertainty, and the ineffectiveness and mess that things like the YouTube moderation algorithm are hardly an endorsement of them.
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Given childporn, we’d like to exclude it from the conversation.
We could handle it personally.
We could have a human offering censoring advice.
We could have an ai doing that.
We could have a shared list, identifying it for us. Compiled by any or all of the above.
We could weight any of those by trustworthiness.
Moderators can be chosen by the people, and changed more easily.
Machine algorithms are a black box of uncertainty, and the ineffectiveness and mess that things like the YouTube moderation algorithm are hardly an endorsement of them.
What’s wrong with having moderators?
I don’t like having a cop hovering over our conversation telling us who can talk and what we can say. That’s what is wrong with having moderators.