Social Platform Trust & Safety
exploring the bounds of social platforms’ responsibility to keep the spaces safe
Social Platform Trust & Safety
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... See more
A scholarly culture that reads and discusses enduringly great works incentivizes the production of such... See more
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
reputation / karma systems
Probably fake - but shows how incomplete “verification” as a trust system is
Centralised moderation isn't the only option that doesn't work. We also need to eliminate any option that doesn't have a credible mean of doing the work — and it's a lot of work, meaning that either someone needs to get paid or you need a lot of volunteers. And punting it to the users can never work.
Few serious observers can consider what we might call the “public square” platforms—particularly Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and the public square’s library, Google—a boon to democracy. Nor are they a flourishing intellectual marketplace. Although it is tempting to shrug at their problems by comparing them to the heated partisan newspapers of the... See more
Jon Askonas • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
Putting aside the mechanics of algorithmic feeds, it feels like there’s often a mismatch between the international user base of a platform and the national “democracy” about which these points are being made
Balanced, neither extracting too much from its component organisms nor pretending that a pantomime of a return to a pristine and ungoverned state will solve any problems at all. (Predation is inevitable in any system, but a working ecosystem starves out the ones who overfeed and provides cover for growth and for the long, continuous experiment of... See more
Erin Kissane • Against the Dark Forest
boo-liet shen 👻 (@julietshen.xyz)
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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 .