Content Moderation
thoughts on online content moderation, free speech, and related topics.
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Content Moderation
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youtube.comIn light of recent issues on Clubhouse & harassment targeted at @taylorlorenz, I want to share some thoughts re how difficult it will be for CH to set up an effective moderation system -- in particular, how difficult it will be to protect women & other marginalized groups. /1
Tatiana Estéveztwitter.comInstead of asking “what should be moderated?,” the question should be: “what do I want to see?”
Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well
Mike Masnicktechdirt.com
Current social networks don't have great tools for dispute resolution. They're a combination of anarchy (people yelling) and tyranny (arbitrary deplatforming).
An alternative approach is a global moderator hierarchy. In the event of dispute, the lowest common ancestor mediates.
To account for the gaps in these solutions, many social computing systems use multiple tiers: Tier 1 is often algorithmic moderation for the most easy-to-catch problems. Tier 2 is human moderation, either paid (like Facebook) or community (like Reddit), depending on the platform.
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