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>>feross+(OP)
I think this view is hopelessly naive in the real world. You could easily make "moderation" (as defined by the article) the same as "censorship" (as defined by the article) by producing a lot of false, semi-false and nonsense content to drown out the signal in the noise.

Our concepts of free speech, censorship and moderation are simply outdated on modern social media - when you have systems designed to encourage and spread low-effort, novel, emotional and manipulative content (e.g. twitter), no amount of "tweaks" to such systems can fix the problem.

Instead of trying to fix systems originally designed for marketing, why not actually design systems meant for disseminating and checking information from the ground up? I bet that would look way different compared to twitter or facebook.

It doesn't have to involve moderation or censorship - it could just mean giving disproporitonately more powerful voice to experts willing to explain disinformation, for example (rather than having their voice drown in the retweet popularity contest).

>>spion+rF
> Our concepts of free speech, censorship and moderation are simply outdated on modern social media - when you have systems designed to encourage and spread low-effort, novel, emotional and manipulative content (e.g. twitter), no amount of "tweaks" to such systems can fix the problem.

Hilariously enough, this is what people said about the invention of both writing and the printing press.

>>disgru+dK
And it was true. Media changed what free speech means; the "yellow press" almost caused wars. Both humans and media have had to learn how to do better with this, and we are struggling to get accurate, unbiased content that isn't controlled or at least partially coloured by special interests.

I have no doubt we can do better, if we actually tried to build social media with the right tools and incentives.