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Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
- And yet, precisely as the platforms became more universal, they became more destructive of community. Communal in clusion relies on ex clusion: some notion of who is and is not a member of the group, and some ways of enforcing that boundary.
from Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs by Ari Schulman
Sam Liebeskind added 5d ago
- But if this ideal of freedom may be absolute within its domain, this is possible only because the domain is narrow, tightly limited by rigorous conditions for entering it.
from Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs by Ari Schulman
Sam Liebeskind added 5d ago
- Moreover, the metaphor breaks down entirely in a post-scarcity, algorithmically mediated world, where there is no obvious relationship between the opinions a person puts forth and where that opinion shows up, often in a mechanically distorted way. The marketplace of ideas assumes a relatively even distribution of megaphones, or a random distributio... See more
from Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs by Ari Schulman
Sam Liebeskind added 5d ago
- It is because a universal public square cannot be a community that the parameters of the online speech debate are stuck. The conflict between the “marketplace of ideas” framework and the “communal norms” framework seems irresolvable because it is irresolvable.
from Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs by Ari Schulman
Sam Liebeskind added 5d ago
- Rather than shoving all our debates into a single, hellish town square, let each town have its own, and let us work to make each a place of fruitful exchange.
from Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs by Jon Askonas
Sam Liebeskind added 5d ago
- With a few exceptions, by far the most important component of successful speech communities is that its moderators have faces . A core feature of bulletin boards, comment threads on blogs, and publications is that the boundaries of acceptable speech are enforced not by tech executives, the farcical Facebook Supreme Court,[xii] or distant buildings ... See more
from Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs by Jon Askonas
Sam Liebeskind added 5d ago
- These are the sorts of ways in which speech moderation online must embrace the political. The main question we must be asking about a speech platform is not what are the standards for moderation but who moderates and what is the moderator’s relationship to the community .
from Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs by Jon Askonas
Sam Liebeskind added 5d ago
- Incentives for productive speech: A speech community is likely to produce whatever kind of discourse it incentivizes. This means that users should have formal or informal incentives to produce speech that is recognized by other users as worthy.
A scholarly culture that reads and discusses enduringly great works incentivizes the production of such wo... See morefrom Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs by Ari Schulman
Sam Liebeskind added 5d ago
reputation / karma systems
- The mistake of the 1.0 platforms was to optimize for engagement—likes, clicks, and shares. This was a successful short-term growth strategy, but at the long-term cost of sustainability. For engagement includes not only joy but rage, not only mirth but sadness. Incentivizing these things creates hellishness, driving people to disengage, to become di... See more
from Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs by Ari Schulman
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