Subj : Re: Meta's community note
To   : Ron L.
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Sat Jan 11 2025 06:26:48

 RL>  AT> that either. It's too much information to analyze. And what kind of
 RL>  AT> skills would such an employee need to make those decisions?
 RL> 
 RL> You start with a simple program that scans new messages for "bad" words.
 RL> It flags them and makes someone have to vet the message before it gets
 RL> posted.  So you've filtered millions of messages to thousands.

That sounds like a descent approach, but they have millions of users. There's going to be a lot of false alarms and/or people getting banned for no good reason.

 RL> There's a big difference between posting an article about how drug xxx
 RL> works against yyy and you should talk to your doctor, and posting a
 RL> threat against someone's life.

What about metaphors? "<Person's name> made me really mad. I'm gonna kill <Person's name> if he/she does that again tomorrow at 4pm at the mall." (lol)

I've had several instances with hispanic people taking me seriously when I said stuff like that. I think they don't talk that way in their language, so they think I'm serious even when I say stuff like that (and of course I don't mean it literally when I say stuff like that.)

 RL> Yup.  Zuck knows that the Elitists aren't going to be protecting him
 RL> anymore.

I just doubt that he would care.

 RL>  AT> My guess is that it would be difficult to prove that they did it to
 RL>  AT> solicit ads, and that they could defend it as "we did it for safety
 RL>  AT> reasons."
 RL> 
 RL> They can try.  But most states have some pretty strong wiretapping laws
 RL> and something like this can fall into that.

I don't know how stuff is in your neighborhood, but I don't see regular people suing big companies. They can break me like a toothpick (in court.)

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