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

by hrbf on 11/2/22, 8:11 PM with 8 comments

• by dekhn on 11/2/22, 9:54 PM

  I'm just waiting around for the inevitable tweet from the the meister twit, "Oh hey all this turned out to be really hard and we're going to need a bunch of time to get all the details right while stepping on a lot of toes and pissing off users and advertisers... please stay!"

  See also: cascade of attention deficit teenagers

• by quantified on 11/2/22, 9:07 PM

  > Hire BETTER engineers! If a car can drive itself, surely a computer can understand fair use!

  Pretty close to apt.

• by smoldesu on 11/2/22, 8:31 PM

  > but the reality is that Twitter was, by far, the most successful platform at taking a “we support free speech” stance for content

  As someone who doesn't like Twitter or Elon Musk, I have to vehimently disagree. Twitter completely failed at establishing an enforceable basis for moderation, which led to vague rulings and unhappy users who felt like they were being silenced. That's entirely Twitter's right as a company, mind you. But it's also a terrible track record for consistent enforcement of their TOS.

  What Elon seems to be advocating for is "free speech" adhering closer to the precident set by US law. That comes with it's own set of consequences, but it's also a much better defined concept than Twitter's TOS violations. Since TechDirt doesn't give us an example of their definition of free speech, this whole article just reads like a nasal commendation of how shitty the internet is. Thanks TechDirt, you really cracked the case on this one.