Post 9jmoR59PPTx8n9cmpc by npd@octodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #9jmoR4wICFSe8TUJO4 by nolan@toot.cafe
       2019-06-12T22:35:12Z
       
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       "The One Rule of Content Moderation That Every Platform Follows" by Will Oremus https://onezero.medium.com/the-one-rule-of-content-moderation-that-every-platform-follows-ab6323e0e293"The underlying problem of our platforms is not that they’re too conservative or too liberal, too dogmatic or too malleable. It’s that giant, for-profit tech companies, as currently constructed, are simply not suited to the task of deciding unilaterally what speech is acceptable and what isn’t."
       
 (DIR) Post #9jmoR59PPTx8n9cmpc by npd@octodon.social
       2019-06-12T23:11:48Z
       
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       @nolan I was hoping the conclusion from that point would be that indeed unilateral universal decision-making on acceptable speech isn't viable at all and we're better off making decisions for smaller scales than "giant" (like Mastodon instances, say). But alas, then the author zags and decides we should have a single, all-encompassing self-regulatory standard that applies universally to every platform and gets updated in response to backlashes.
       
 (DIR) Post #9jmoRzt4StkikzQ2mO by garbados@toot.cat
       2019-06-12T23:10:04Z
       
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       @nolan > Grygiel envisions a standards body analogous to the advertising industry’s Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, but for content moderation and social media safety.hmm that doesn’t sound ominous at all 😬
       
 (DIR) Post #9jmoS03hpMG9HyOXM8 by garbados@toot.cat
       2019-06-12T23:19:37Z
       
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       @nolan > “The idea that social media gives everyone a voice is often viewed at the individual level, but the real power is in collective action and the public’s ability to help steer corporate social responsibility and accountability through feedback loops.”this is a mindfuck of a sentence. the real power IS in collective action! but not to steer corporate social responsibility — unless, of course, they meant worker- and user-control over the company.
       
 (DIR) Post #9jmoS0G75EBTuSCRhA by garbados@toot.cat
       2019-06-12T23:25:58Z
       
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       @nolan that bit about corper social responsibility comes right after the comparison to an ads standards group. i wonder if it’s a line we’ll see more of as states try to issue regulation, and corpers try to shape it. it feels like a tremendous misdirection, like, “stay angry! keep clicking! good! good!” while the structural issue remains an elephant in the room: that these powers, this control, shouldn’t be in so few hands at all.
       
 (DIR) Post #9jmxIHWQwYHi8sGy2q by nolan@toot.cafe
       2019-06-13T01:24:09Z
       
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       @npd I don't see *any* journalists/techfluencers who are bullish on Mastodon/IndieWeb/fediverse anymore. Except maybe Cal Newport.The assumption seems to be that economies of scale + network effects = welp, Facebook is the government now.
       
 (DIR) Post #9jmxUtV3ZJplP3duT2 by nolan@toot.cafe
       2019-06-13T01:28:18Z
       
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       @garbados Yeah, unfortunately I've become convinced that the one thing the platform masses can't effectively organize against is the platform itself. It's like #DeleteFacebook hashtags on Facebook.