In the long run, moderation arguments are not going to fall in favour of the fediverse, especially if regulation is passed which requires server operators to demonstrate some methodology to prevent incitement. Big tech will be able to go before lobbied-up governing bodies with their high powered lawyers and present hundred million dollar machine learning systems which comply with mandates, while the mod running opensource. federated .rs is going to have to present a rudimentary attempt at detterence.
When a few so called bad apples are identified, they can paint the whole thing as alt. Alt-google, alt-twitter, alt-x. Element being temporarily banned from the playstore was originally characterised that way.
Moderation is good and necessary (unless you are running a music/movie tracker site and don’t want to know whats on there) but its not something to hang a hat on when thinking about solutions to community federation vs corporatism.
Here’s an example of bill created with input from platform operators that will be familiar to their lawyers and a jungle for independents:
Specifically, the bill makes it unlawful to provide a service that’s primarily designed to show copyright-infringing content, has no significant commercial purpose other than piracy, or is intentionally marketed to promote streaming piracy.
Tailoring the bill to commercial services is an important distinction that makes it more balanced than earlier versions proposed in the past. This means that average YouTube and Twitch streamers have little to worry about.
During years, twitter (/facebook) gave a platform for free hate speech talk and didn’t moderate. And twitter became too big to be able to moderate its platform.
That’s true, twitter could have done something, but they didn’t…
My opinion is that the fediverse will make those extremists become unheard again as most instances will ban the few “free hate speech” instances.
I am not that optimistic that hate speech instance will be few and easy to ban, but I am optimistic that the tech will be able to come up with clever ideas to find a mix between white and blacklisting new instances. Maybe a trust system or something like that will help.
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In the long run, moderation arguments are not going to fall in favour of the fediverse, especially if regulation is passed which requires server operators to demonstrate some methodology to prevent incitement. Big tech will be able to go before lobbied-up governing bodies with their high powered lawyers and present hundred million dollar machine learning systems which comply with mandates, while the mod running opensource. federated .rs is going to have to present a rudimentary attempt at detterence.
When a few so called bad apples are identified, they can paint the whole thing as alt. Alt-google, alt-twitter, alt-x. Element being temporarily banned from the playstore was originally characterised that way.
Moderation is good and necessary (unless you are running a music/movie tracker site and don’t want to know whats on there) but its not something to hang a hat on when thinking about solutions to community federation vs corporatism.
Here’s an example of bill created with input from platform operators that will be familiar to their lawyers and a jungle for independents:
https://torrentfreak.com/us-senators-urge-attorney-general-to-prosecute-pirate-streaming-services-210317/
That’s true, twitter could have done something, but they didn’t…
I am not that optimistic that hate speech instance will be few and easy to ban, but I am optimistic that the tech will be able to come up with clever ideas to find a mix between white and blacklisting new instances. Maybe a trust system or something like that will help.