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Or no government regulation... 🙄 #libertarians

I mean, the other question is what you do about Nazis. That's why Kara Swisher's question to Zuck about Holocaust deniers was so telling. Zuck had not actually thought about the question. I think the requirement for owning a social media company is an explicit plan for dealing with Nazis.

I agree that some harms cannot be mitigated by user-managed moderation. But the ones that I can think of aren't particularly well mitigated by platform level moderation either. They often reflect society-level disputes that shouldn't be resolved by the preference of a single enterprise.

I can't think of a time in the history of computing when so much processing power has been, literally, in the hands of the user and yet been doing so little for the user, and so much for somebody else. I want *my* devices to work for *me*.

My go to when people start "We should debate all viewpoints, it's how you get a well rounded discussion" used to be pretending I was a Nigerian prince who wanted to make their penis three inches bigger

“Except it’s not” — reminds me a bit how way back when I used to wonder how people who actually worked on the viagra account ever manage to use email. They had legit emails about viagra to send and receive. 😆

nobody asked but when I was a young lad some dude made an unmoderated board for like a dozen of us to post on and the bit was we were anti-oppression the idea that you can run an actual biz like this unmoderated is just the actually dumbest and most juvenile idea imaginable

And the spam classification Twitter displays is a good example of this, almost none of the labeled tweets appear to actually be spam.

Kinda had a different “S” word in mind for the people who uncritically believe him.

loool the 'real' users are blue checks and they determine what is or isn't throttled

@mmasnick.bsky.social beyond illegal stuff, unwanted tagging (including hashtag pollution) is where you draw the line. that handles spam and harassment. on fedi, servers that refuse to police for that (or welcome people who bother those on other servers) should be blocked for the good of the […]

"slightly differently"

I’m not so sure they believe him inasmuch as they suck up to him in hopes he will favor them with money.

"...he is a very bright person..." Well there's your problem.

I mean, he reduces visibility on all posts using the word "cisgender"? Freedom of speech my fabulous tushie!

Sad little man. 🤷🏻

You're very kind! But yes, once you're removing spam, NCII, and CSAM (which ~everyone trying to run a usable site for mainstream audiences does) you've crossed the rubicon. You're doing content moderation. The only question is just "what do you think is like those things and why?"

I don't understand how mutes & blocks can qualify under even the loosest definitions of spam. But, I suppose words don't have to have meanings when they're convenient excuses.

I suspect musk melon is the most blocked individual...

It's also visible, since all it does is spam me with ads and nazi idiots

I read that and I was like what does that even mean? I've never used Twitter so I thought maybe I was just out of the loop

Does it happen when someone eats a 2nd piece of pie, but never says “I’ve got a belly ache. Why oh why did I have more pie?”