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>>feross+(OP)
I don't want moderation OR censorship. I want proper labeling so that I can self-filter out things that I don't want to see. Just like the labels on cans of food tells you exactly what ingredients are found within the can so you can skip the ones with peanuts, gluten, or some other substance you don't want; I want labels (and levels) on data.

If I don't want to see profanity, I should be able to set my filter to exclude profane comments. If I don't want to see nudity, I can set that filter too. Just like movies get a certain rating (G, PG, R, etc.), we should be able to properly label data.

>>didget+PG1
> I want proper labeling so that I can self-filter out things that I don't want to see.

This is basically what he describes in the article as a form of moderation: "If you wanted to get fancy, you could have a bunch of filters - harassing content, sexually explicit content, conspiracy theories - and let people toggle which ones they wanted to see vs. avoid."

>>bryan0+Ya2
Who gets to choose what is labelled sexually explicit or a conspiracy? At the beginning of the war in Ukraine there were accusations of bot farms mass flagging people's streams as containing adult content to get them silenced.