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Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

#31
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/eu-official-warns-musk-hell-...

will still have to oblige. Definitely no "hate speech, incitement to terrorism and child sexual abuse."

For his part, Musk has said he wouldn’t allow illegal content on the platform.

Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

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Delay decisions, set up a committee... wow, that was fast, he's already becoming Jack. [EDIT:] The problem is that a "council with widely diverse viewpoints" is not going to come to consensus on moderation. They're inevitably going to disagree, just like in politics. So then what? How is lack of consensus not the inevitable outcome of a widely diverse committee?

> How is lack of consensus not the inevitable outcome of a widely diverse committee? That sounds fine to me if there’s actually a diverse set of view points. Getting censored should require a wide swathe of agreement. Not just a vocal minority.

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Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

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It would be amazing if a council with diverse viewpoints could even sit together without killing each other in this day and age. Does this exist anywhere?

In the real world, sure. The Internet would have us believe that civil war is imminent. We need to stop letting the 1% of people who bother to post online drive our national dialog. We have put the crazies in charge of the asylum.

Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

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post #2

Delay decisions, set up a committee... wow, that was fast, he's already becoming Jack. [EDIT:] The problem is that a "council with widely diverse viewpoints" is not going to come to consensus on moderation. They're inevitably going to disagree, just like in politics. So then what? How is lack of consensus not the inevitable outcome of a widely diverse committee?

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Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

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Delay decisions, set up a committee... wow, that was fast, he's already becoming Jack. [EDIT:] The problem is that a "council with widely diverse viewpoints" is not going to come to consensus on moderation. They're inevitably going to disagree, just like in politics. So then what? How is lack of consensus not the inevitable outcome of a widely diverse committee?

Musk is way over his head. If you view the 4chan forums, they're already plotting racist, anti-semitic content and rejoicing. Advertisers will not be happy real quick.

Right wing provocateurs are already having their supporters posting the n-word, racist and anti LGBTQ content since Elon took over.

It is going to be fun watching it implode.

Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

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post #24
post #2

Delay decisions, set up a committee... wow, that was fast, he's already becoming Jack. [EDIT:] The problem is that a "council with widely diverse viewpoints" is not going to come to consensus on moderation. They're inevitably going to disagree, just like in politics. So then what? How is lack of consensus not the inevitable outcome of a widely diverse committee?

> How is lack of consensus not the inevitable outcome of a widely diverse committee? That sounds fine to me if there’s actually a diverse set of view points. Getting censored should require a wide swathe of agreement. Not just a vocal minority.

They could implement quadratic voting which may solve the challenge of getting people to more-correctly express their intensity of concern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_voting

Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

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This sort of justifies the viewpoint that despite all his bluster, Elon will probably run Twitter the way a "reasonable executive" would. Not just release the hounds. Keep the advertisers happy, but try to reduce the reliance on advertisers. Keep moderating content to reduce abuse, maybe eliminate the high profile banning but a person on the ground will have largely the same experience. (probably less action on more…

He already tweeted something groveling to the importance of advertisers asking them to not leave yet.

Re: “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

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post #24
post #2

Delay decisions, set up a committee... wow, that was fast, he's already becoming Jack. [EDIT:] The problem is that a "council with widely diverse viewpoints" is not going to come to consensus on moderation. They're inevitably going to disagree, just like in politics. So then what? How is lack of consensus not the inevitable outcome of a widely diverse committee?

> How is lack of consensus not the inevitable outcome of a widely diverse committee? That sounds fine to me if there’s actually a diverse set of view points. Getting censored should require a wide swathe of agreement. Not just a vocal minority.

The tweet also mentions account reinstatements, so it goes both ways.
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