Elon Musk wants Twitter supervisory board to make important moderation decisions – IT Pro – News

The British does not object. He reminds the platform of the rules because there is an acquisition and Elon has talked enough about opening the platform.

That there are a lot of issues on Twitter that don’t match Twitter’s terms and conditions and discrimination laws is a long-standing problem. On every social medium. Complete and consistent human moderation is too expensive; far more employees would be needed than the income model can ever support. And the algorithms are far from recognizing all the nuances like sarcasm.

The EU is thinking about better rules and often asks platforms to do more. But they are commercial platforms with commitment and money as their main focus. The revenue model does not allow for full moderation. Even a state-owned social medium would be nothing. The platforms also do not censor massively. But don’t open it either.

Conclusion: We are in a phase of humanity where information flows have become gigantic, but there are no good solutions for who controls and owns it, and how. I don’t think there is a way of thinking that works optimally for now, because we don’t agree on what would be optimal. Capitalism and our current power structures are perhaps fundamentally incompatible with robust information flows. Because as long as it’s all on a commercial basis, profit and commitment / dispute outweigh all other interests. It would be just as scary if the state did that. From the way we look at the problem now, I don’t think there are good practical solutions.

[Reactie gewijzigd door geert1 op 29 oktober 2022 13:34]