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Another attempt to basically recreate forums at scale again, just like them all before.

If you can't moderate against your policies at scale, you'll be no more successful. Even using 'clever' AI and algorhythms is useless vs a manageable community size and good moderators.

You can't be a social platform for all and have it both ways in opening free speech up on all topics but with easy moderation.

There's a very good reason most internet forums had/have specific rules against discussing politics and religion, and here we are trying to include them at scale. Ha. This is especially hard if you want it to be publicly open for all on all topics.

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is it though? it looks to me like this is the opposite of trying to scale policies - they're picking premium news that can be trusted to not need their moderation policies, and highlighting that.

the riff-raff can be subject to moderation policies, but there's no need to hire moderators to watch over reuters or propublica.