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"It’s kind of a rite of passage for any new social media network. They show up,
insist that they’re the “platform for free speech” without quite understanding
what that actually means, and then they quickly discover a whole bunch of
fairly fundamental ideas, institute a bunch of rapid (often sloppy) changes…
and in the end, they basically all end up in the same general vicinity, with
just a few small differences on the margin. Look, I went through it myself. In
the early days I insisted that sites shouldn’t do any moderation at all,
including my own. But I learned. As did Parler, Gettr, Truth Social and lots of
others.
Anyway, Elon’s in a bit of a different position, because rather than starting
something new, he’s taken over a large platform. I recognize that he, his
buddies, and a whole lot of other people think that Twitter is especially bad
at this, and that he’s got some special ideas for “bringing free speech back,”
but the reality is that Twitter was, by far, the most successful platform at
taking a “we support free speech” stance for content, and learned over time the
many nuances and tradeoffs involved.
And because I do hope that Musk succeeds and Twitter remains viable, I wanted
to see if we might help him (and anyone else) speed run the basics of the
content moderation learning curve that most newbies run into. The order of the
levels and the seriousness of each can change over time, and how it all fits
together may be somewhat different, but, in the end, basically every major
social media platform ends up in this same place eventually (the place Twitter
was already at when Musk insisted he needed to tear things down and start
again)."
Via Kevin O'Brien.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
