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by crushcrashcrush 2648 days ago
The only reason the valley has trumpeted the "we're just a platform" is that it was better for the bottom line and shareholders. Now it no longer is.
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You make this just about greed when it's also about toil. Nobody likes dealing with the filth that some people share. The armies of content moderators that have to deal with it don't have happy jobs.

This is a category of labor that formerly wasn't necessary, and yet somehow now it is. Why is that? How can we make it go away?

Perhaps the monetary incentives will provide motivation to solve it.

Reddit went through this too.
Reddit still allows white supremacists and other assorted awful things to go through their platform.