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by sandworm101 1988 days ago
>> a centralized service dictate what is and isn't "good".

This isn't movie reviews. Good and bad are not the standards. The standard is whether or not something is illegal. When the feds come knocking on your door because your servers are full of highly illegal content, "we let them moderate themselves" will be no defense.
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pjc50 1988 days ago
"Legal" is both local and can change over time. America has been in an unusual situation because it allows far more speech, especially speech right up to the boundary of "incitement to violence".

However, the police have far too much to do, so in practice millions of blatently illegal death threats get sent every day and do not receive any police response. Hence the demand for a non-police response that can far more cheaply remove the death threats or threateners.

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Mindwipe 1988 days ago
"Legal" is not a very good determination.

Discussion of homosexuality is "illegal" in many states. It is a moral imperative for systems to break those laws.

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