I just wish there were more principle-based people that cared about the impact of misinformation broadly and not just for amplification of their own politics.
During the Biden years, Zuckerberg was hauled into Congress multiple times, and he was bullied daily to moderate content. Twitter was too. That moderation was ideologically-based fo…
I just wish there were more principle-based people that cared about the impact of misinformation broadly and not just for amplification of their own politics.
During the Biden years, Zuckerberg was hauled into Congress multiple times, and he was bullied daily to moderate content. Twitter was too. That moderation was ideologically-based for the left-leaning administration. Left-leaning journalism didn't find this to be much of a story/issue, and neither did the left-leaning base. If you thought moderation was okay then, consider yourself part of this problem we have today.
Fast forward to today. 'Zuck' is turning moderation on its head, moved moderation to Texas, and tells Joe Rogan he likes to hunt (LOL). Moderation is certainly changed.
The only thing that could have saved us from this moment is having enough people that have principal (and not political power) beliefs so that a rubber band doesn't need to send moderation hard in yet another corrective direction.
When right-leaning folks in power quickly get intoxicated by their moderation power, this will again cause general angst that the rubber band will again turn to left-leaning moderation. This was and is sadly predictable. Everybody should have cared about content moderation before Trump came back and before Elon took over Twitter. Please always be purists for fairness for all and not for fairness just for our own. Until we care about the unfair moderation of others, we can't expect nor deserve it for ourselves.
I just wish there were more principle-based people that cared about the impact of misinformation broadly and not just for amplification of their own politics.
During the Biden years, Zuckerberg was hauled into Congress multiple times, and he was bullied daily to moderate content. Twitter was too. That moderation was ideologically-based for the left-leaning administration. Left-leaning journalism didn't find this to be much of a story/issue, and neither did the left-leaning base. If you thought moderation was okay then, consider yourself part of this problem we have today.
Fast forward to today. 'Zuck' is turning moderation on its head, moved moderation to Texas, and tells Joe Rogan he likes to hunt (LOL). Moderation is certainly changed.
The only thing that could have saved us from this moment is having enough people that have principal (and not political power) beliefs so that a rubber band doesn't need to send moderation hard in yet another corrective direction.
When right-leaning folks in power quickly get intoxicated by their moderation power, this will again cause general angst that the rubber band will again turn to left-leaning moderation. This was and is sadly predictable. Everybody should have cared about content moderation before Trump came back and before Elon took over Twitter. Please always be purists for fairness for all and not for fairness just for our own. Until we care about the unfair moderation of others, we can't expect nor deserve it for ourselves.