Sypher the 297th
Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
I don't know what the solution is here. When you give people the power to censor they almost inevitably abuse it. Musk is one example of that. Free speech coming from him is a joke as he purely wants to spread disinfo and get paid for it. Trump's "Truth" Social and other right-wing social networks are the same.
But it happens on the left too. YouTube wages war on its own users by making conversation impossible because everything is censored randomly by bots. Slate has moderators who regularly abuse their position to silence voices critical or insufficiently deferential to their pet position. Reddit mods rule their fiefdoms like they're planning an invasion of Ukraine. I've even seen something fishy with a mod here who was an anti-nuclear, renewables-only fanatic in a conversation on nuclear power who really didn't like anyone pointing out their position would just cause longer term fossil fuels consumption.
Algorithms don't work. Moderators eventually go feral. And no moderation at all? That is a recipe for a sewer pipe of unfiltered hate and misinformation spewing everywhere.
But it happens on the left too. YouTube wages war on its own users by making conversation impossible because everything is censored randomly by bots. Slate has moderators who regularly abuse their position to silence voices critical or insufficiently deferential to their pet position. Reddit mods rule their fiefdoms like they're planning an invasion of Ukraine. I've even seen something fishy with a mod here who was an anti-nuclear, renewables-only fanatic in a conversation on nuclear power who really didn't like anyone pointing out their position would just cause longer term fossil fuels consumption.
Algorithms don't work. Moderators eventually go feral. And no moderation at all? That is a recipe for a sewer pipe of unfiltered hate and misinformation spewing everywhere.
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