Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

I like yishan's content and his climate focus, but this "we interrupt your tweet thread for sponsored content" style tangent is a bit annoying - not directly for doing it or its content, but because I can see other thread writers picking this up and we end up the same as Youtube with sponsored sections of content that you can't ad block.

FWIW With YT you can block them with Sponsorblock, which works with user submitted timestamps of sponsored sections in videos. If this tweet technique takes off I'd imagine a similar idea for tweets.

> Our current climate of political polarization makes it easy to think itʻs about the content of the speech, or hate speech, or misinformation, or censorship, or etc etc.

Are we sure that it is not the other way around? Didn't social platforms created or increased polarization?

I always see this comments from social platforms that take as fact that society is polarized and they work hard to fix it, when I believe that it is the other way around. Social media has created the opportunity to increase polarization and they are not able to stop it for technical, social or economic reasons.

This CEO did the same thread 6 months ago and was blasted off the internet. You can see his thread here: https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938507407421440

edit/ Guess it is working now?

The most important post in his older thread: https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514939100444311560

He never ever justifies this point. The world absolutely has not changed in the context of censorship. Censorship apologetics notwithstanding.

The realization is the world changed is a reveal. He as CEO learnt about where the censorship is coming from.

There are some neat ideas raised by Yishan.

One is 'put up or shutup' for appeals of moderator decisions.

That is anyone who wishes to appeal needs to also consent to have all their activities on the platform, relevant to the decision, revealed publicly.

It definitely could prevent later accusations of secretiveness or arbitrariness. And it probably would also make users think more in marginal cases before submitting.

Yeah, there were some good articles about this:

>The Making of a YouTube Radical

>I visited Mr. Cain in West Virginia after seeing his YouTube video denouncing the far right. We spent hours discussing his radicalization. To back up his recollections, he downloaded and sent me his entire YouTube history, a log of more than 12,000 videos and more than 2,500 search queries dating to 2015.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/yo... (2019)