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by psyc 1528 days ago
Give the user the ability to choose their preferred filtering for themselves. Think carefully about how to do it. Redirect your zeal there.

At the top-down platform level, focus on keeping out illegal material only. Take any further aspects of your value system and your theories about what is or isn't "good" for people out of it.

The current model is terribly contemptuous and anti-human. It assumes that someone or something has more legitimacy than "those people" to decide what EVERYBODY can/can't should/shouldn't create and consume. Whether that someone is "a private company that can do what it wants, no further examination needed", or a government, "society", "the people (really, 'my people')", the majority, the elite, the experts, the intellectuals, the 'responsible adults in the room', it's all the same. Tyranny over the experience of every single person by a subset of people in a position to make it so.