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by falcolas 1591 days ago
If a company who already moderates a portion of their content claims that they're unable to moderate content due to scale, should we really accept that as a valid argument?

Have we actually decided that "scale" is a good a justification for behaving badly, or are we simply accepting it without critical thought because we once respected those companies?

IMO, companies do not have some inherent right to profitability, or even to remain in business, if they can't responsibly conduct their business.

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Yes it is a valid argument. This is exactly why Ron Wyden wrote section 230 and why nobody has a replacement that isn’t suspect as a bill of attainder. A light amount moderation is easy. Doing that everywhere is hard. The same thing works for police. We police a portion of the city, but we don’t want or expect the police to cover every single inch of the city.