twovests

twovests OP wrote

jef bnezos only acutoually has like, maybe a billion or several billions in liquid funds!! stop asking him to pay taxes.

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twovests wrote

Ehhh, white supremacists were some of the earliest adopters of the internet. The problems with Parler, Gab, etc. aren't new. I don't think removing Section 230 will help anyone.

This person is arguing we should get rid of automated moderation is stone-cold stupid. There's more evils to be moderated than just nazis. Why should we subject humans to child pornography when we have automated tools that can identify a broad class of child pornography? And what's to stop the "good-faith human moderators" from being bad? Employing automated moderation is a necessary step of good-faith measures.

This person acknowledges that ISPs, etc. should still be seen as service providers, but the reality is that Twitter, etc. are practically utilities for common people nowadays. The common citizen doesn't have the ability to call a press conference or send mass mailings on a whim (like Trump does).

I think the root of this evil lies in the engagement and marketing algorithms that big sites use. It's like the Paperclip game about an AI that optimizes paperclip production (at the cost of everything else) https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

I almost feel like I'm missing some big parts of the argument here

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twovests wrote

So, we have moderation logs, but AFAIK they don't mark edits. This is good for, say, scouring the site of spam links or porn posts or whatnot.

For the health of a larger site run by postmill, I'd say it's definitely bad. Forum mods should not be able to edit someones post. Admins would have the power but probably shouldn't.

Not to be a "muh freeze peach" chud, but I think it's plainly icky for mods and admins to edit posts, even in jest. The only exceptions I could see are syntactically-clear mod edits, a-la "USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST".

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