Let me tell you: There are no real principles. They have to pretend to enforce fairness. They would like you (the users) to stop squabbling over stupid shit and causing drama so that they can spend their time writing more features and not have to adjudicate your stupid little fights.Īnd, so, as he notes, if you don’t want to get moderated, stop being a jackass:īut the platforms have to be polite. He says it’s about not “squabbling” but the squabbling is a result of people acting like jackasses, and it escalates. While slightly simplified from reality, he notes that the people making these decisions just want you to behave and stop being a jackass. I talk a bit about this in my thread about Omega Events:
They really don’t.ĭonald Trump was not de-platformed for being right-wing. The key point that Yishan made (and which I also made in my post last week) is that many, many of the people in these companies - both at the executive decision making level and working on content moderation or trust & safety - don’t care about your politics and don’t want to touch your content.
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And no one’s been able to solve those ever, and a guy building rockets doesn’t magically know how to fix those kinds of problems. What you’re trying to solve for with content moderation is human nature and societal level problems. He has no idea.” That’s because almost everyone - especially techies - assume there’s some simple solution to the content moderation challenge. I’m not going to go through the whole thing, but did want to point out some key points that are worth repeating.Īs he starts out the thread noting, if Elon does take over Twitter “he is in for a world of pain. Last week, about the same time I posted by giant post on all the things that Elon Musk didn’t understand about content moderation, former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong posted a really long, but completely worth reading thread about content moderation on social networks. Mon, Apr 18th 2022 12:13pm - Mike Masnick
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