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> Our concepts of free speech, censorship and moderation are simply outdated on modern social media - when you have systems designed to encourage and spread low-effort, novel, emotional and manipulative content (e.g. twitter), no amount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+(OP)
Not sure why you are getting downvoted since you are spot on.

>>disgru+(OP)
> writing and the printing press

TV, film, radio, and comic books, too.

>>disgru+(OP)
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.

>>EricE+Hm
No, he isn' spot on. Printing presses spread ideas and misinformation at a much more human speed than today's Internet based platforms. So, they're a poor analogy for the problem we're discussing.

(I didn't down vote him, BTW. His comment is relevant)

>>ripe+9X
I dunno, Europe post the printing press was pretty crazy for a few decades. More generally I think that it's the rate of increase that causes the problems, not the baseline.