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Except, I don’t think it’s that simple.
Is it possible to be a utility and content curator?
Young minds areespecially vulnerable to algorithmically massaged data fed to us like highly targeted firehouses of content and ideas.
Twitter and YouTube didn’t care what you posted.
No one foresaw the future and certainly no one foresaw January 6th.
SCOTUS could rob these platforms of their most basic moderation capabilities.
Social media is in a constant battle with content and information polluters.
If it can’t automate some of the moderation, the platforms will be overrun and soon unusable.
Do I think these platforms should be able to, when asked, explain their decisions?
Yes, but I guarantee that YouTube and others make millions of automated decisions every day.
I take this as a sign that there’s some balance.
They get it wrong a lot but not as much as they get right.
Censorship is bad when it happens, but social media without content moderation would be downright dangerous.
