Hey all, another moderation topic here 🙀
We’ve all had a lot of discussion about it. Rather than posting my opinion on it, I wanted to share this talk from usenet about what they’ve learned from it.
They talk about the fediverse at the end!
I also want to share these 2 stories:
A study on how usenet learned to deal with spam: https://www.techdirt.com/2020/09/18/content-moderation-case-study-usenet-has-to-figure-out-how-to-deal-with-spam-april-1994/
One of the ways usenet deals with child porn: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/clean-news-proposed-as-usenet-censor/
If you watch the video and find any interesting bits, let’s discuss them!
Very interesting, thank you. The Clean News solution sounds like what some US states are planning for age verification, supposedly keeping posters and readers anonymous for the purposes of the general public, but traceable by law enforcement. Maybe I’ve misunderstood, but I’m more comfortable having that kind of system applied voluntarily when posting certain media than by mandate to all users of a platform.