[devilbunny]

> Server moderators should be legally responsible for content on their server.

And therefore anything that is remotely questionable will be blocked. Not just kiddie porn. Pissed off a local business with a bad review? Blocked.

Child abusers are twisted people, and I really don’t care much what happens to them, but making it impossible for them to use the internet means sterilizing the whole thing.

[prmoustache]

>And therefore anything that is remotely questionable will be blocked. Not just kiddie porn. Pissed off a local business with a bad review? Blocked.

This is already the case. There is a lot of lawful, useful, medical or educational content that is actively censured on social medias because they include words or pictures of organs while same social medias actively encourage and develop algorithm to push underage girls (and possibly boys) posting pictures of themselves in sexual poses, attires and context.

Big tech and social media networks love and push CSAM, they just hide the genitals but the content really is the same.

[devilbunny]

> a lot of lawful, useful, medical or educational content

Like what? It’s all there on Wikipedia, and for all of Wiki’s faults, I have trouble imagining what kind of useful, educational, medical information you will find on social media that is better than that.

[prmoustache]

You don't necessarily reach the same population and some people, believe it or not, are afraid, unable or have difficulties to read yet are online.

[devilbunny]

Afraid to read Wikipedia? Unable to? What hellhole are you describing?

[reverius42]

20% of adults in the USA read below a 5th-grade level.

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-liter...

[devilbunny]

So?

If you find Wikipedia too complicated, you probably aren’t looking up your medical diagnoses.

[abdullahkhalids]

You are just saying that physical life doesn't function. People get banned or removed from all sorts of informal and formal groups all the time because of completely illegitimate reasons. That's just human politics embedded so deeply in our psychology it will never go away. They simply move to different groups - and similarly online they can move to a different federated server.

But that's not possible in today's oligopoly of social media. An invisible algorithm will ban you, and there is no way back, and few alternates. Big Social Media is way worse from a sanitizing perspective than some federated social media.

[devilbunny]

I have no deep problem with exclusion; as you say, that’s human nature and unfixable. Making mods personally legally liable for everything that appears on their board is just insane. How many minutes are acceptable for them to see and review content? Or does everything have to be pre-approved?

I know a local blog that pre-approves every comment. He lets a lot of stuff through, because he lets people be dumbasses. If he were personally liable, the conversation would get a lot quieter.