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Spam is something different than misinformation. Russians are targeted for misinformation if they criticize the war and labeled as spreaders of fake news. Sound familiar? If someone in western nations proposes the same because we are the good guys, that person did misunderstand one of the most fundamental implications of the enlightenment. Even supposedly educated people seem to fail here massively and this is still very basic.

And yes, moderation did ban content that was correct and only later admitted the mistake. But the damage is done at that point. I don't even believe Musk doesn't have his own opinion on allowed content, but his perspective is the vastly smarter one and if you think about being in opposition to someone like him, better start your homework yesterday.

Because what we got until now didn't have any sensible quality. Companies are interested in compliance. If you think you can leverage them to build good moderation you are either very naive or malicious. Same problem with Musk technically, but at least he writes the correct stuff on his banner.

Hate speech is a vehicle to enable dictators to censor content they don't like. You cannot ban people being hateful and contrary to pop-science believes it isn't as contagious as believed.

The solution is to have an iron framework of allowed content. Terms like hate speech make that impossible. Call it personal attacks and ban them if you don't want them on your platform. But ban only them and let supposed misinformation stay. Your crusade is more damaging than the info itself. And in some cases the info is correct and you are not. Basically the classical approach of many internet platforms.