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GeerJonezzz t1_ja7y4ur wrote

No, actually, my only suggestion would be better moderation with improved AI and algorithms, and changing aspects or features of these platforms to make work easier for moderation teams. And of course, much more transparency. All in all, it’s a big ask but more reasonable as it flows with the natural optimization and improvement of automatic features.

Trying to get rid of bad actors online is no different than trying to eliminate all crime. Twitter, FB, Instagram, has more people than any city in the world many times over.

The fact is, unwanted people and content will always exist. As people, in a social and cultural sense, our focus should be to educate people on how to navigate the internet and social media. How to protect ourselves and how to interact with extreme content either illicit or ideological instead of wanting to limit and control everything that goes on.

There are arguments for having the government be more responsible in alleviating moderation duties from these companies on these websites- which I’m not opposed to but I’m not familiar with the pro’s and con’s of it to discuss it.

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Micheal42 t1_ja8c0qp wrote

Interesting, thanks for sharing your view

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GeerJonezzz t1_ja8ct07 wrote

Well, sure, thanks for reading and engaging.

I just don’t want to come off like some laissez faire government, free speech absolutist kind of guy. It’s just the internet is a hard place to secure so I think people are quick to assume you can just sort of lockdown these spaces and there would be no problems or drawbacks.

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