Comment by ethbr1
10 days ago
In the before times, we used government regulation to enforce private company responsibility in accordance with authority.
If Meta and X want to be a public square, then one of the costs should be hiring enough human moderators to rapidly review critical cases (political, health, hate/conspiracy, etc).
If they don't... fine, then make money doing something else.
But at their current scale, this is really a resource allocation question about whether their margin is a few points higher or lower.
Absolving themselves of democratic responsibilities in exchange for a few bucks is gross.
I don't know why you're telling ME this, I'm just the messenger. But also it's quite confused:
> If Meta and X want to be a public square, then one of the costs should be hiring enough human moderators to rapidly review critical cases (political, health, hate/conspiracy, etc).
They did that. Then they decided to no longer do so -- "should" is a noise word. It's your opinion and clearly they don't care.
> If they don't... fine, then make money doing something else.
Who are you even addressing? "Hey Meta, make money doing something else!" -- only in some bizarre narcissistic fantasy world does say such things have any effect.
> Absolving themselves of democratic responsibilities in exchange for a few bucks is gross.
Um, yes. Now grow up.