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pixelbyindex | 2 years ago

> Context doesn't matter, they can't afford this being on the platform and being interpreted with different context

I have to disagree. The idea that allowing human interaction to proceed as it would without policing presents a threat to their business or our culture is not something I have seen strong enough argument for.

Allowing flagging / reporting by the users themselves is a better path to content control.

IMO the more we train ourselves that context doesn't matter, the more we will pretend that human beings are just incapable of humor, everything is offensive, and trying to understand others before judging their words is just impossible, so let the AI handle it.

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comboy|2 years ago

I wondered about that. Ideally I would allow everything to be said. The most offensive things ever. It's a simple rule and people would get desensitized to written insults. You can't get desensitized to physical violence affecting you.

But then you have problems like doxing. Or even without doxing promoting acts that affect certain groups or certain places. Which certain amount of people will follow, just because of the scale. You can say these people would be responsible, but with scale you can hurt without breaking the law. So where would you draw the line? Would you moderate anything?

ethbr1|2 years ago

When the 2020 election shenanigans happened, Zuckerberg originally made a pretty stout defense of free speech absolutism.

And then the political firestorm that ensued, from people with the power to regulate Meta, quickly changed his talking points.

hansvm|2 years ago

Scale is just additional context. The words by themselves aren't an issue, but the surrounding context makes it worth moderating.

ChadNauseam|2 years ago

I agree with you, but don't forget that John Oliver got on Last Week Tonight to accuse Facebook's lax moderation of causing a genocide in Myanmar. The US media environment was delusionally anti-facebook so I don't blame them for being overly censorious