The original title says “challenge to moderate it.” Whether moderation is censorship can be debated, but there example TFA gives is of YouTube, which has a policy against glorifying acts of violence (or the perpetrators, I guess?).
The meat of the article is that social media platforms with policies forbidding some kinds of content are having trouble moderating the sheer amount of support Mangione is getting, and supposedly the support for the murder of which he’s being accused.
You, OP, are implying that all moderation is censorship, which I think is an interesting debate. When content is centrally controlled, I’m inclined to agree with you: Twitter, Tik Tok, Reddit, and YouTube moderation are not in the same category of midwest.social (or any other federated platform) moderation, the latter which I’d argue is absolutely necessary to creating safe spaces and not censorship. By extension, the debate about whether moderation is censorship can be sidestepped by arguing that all media platforms should be federated (although, you still have the 900lb Gorilla, a.k.a. Mastodon, problem).
I don’t think there’s a debate to be had, moderation itself is not censorship. If you post about Portugal in a community for Latvia, removing that post is not censorship - it’s just moderation.
Nicely done with the title alteration.
The original title says “challenge to moderate it.” Whether moderation is censorship can be debated, but there example TFA gives is of YouTube, which has a policy against glorifying acts of violence (or the perpetrators, I guess?).
The meat of the article is that social media platforms with policies forbidding some kinds of content are having trouble moderating the sheer amount of support Mangione is getting, and supposedly the support for the murder of which he’s being accused.
You, OP, are implying that all moderation is censorship, which I think is an interesting debate. When content is centrally controlled, I’m inclined to agree with you: Twitter, Tik Tok, Reddit, and YouTube moderation are not in the same category of midwest.social (or any other federated platform) moderation, the latter which I’d argue is absolutely necessary to creating safe spaces and not censorship. By extension, the debate about whether moderation is censorship can be sidestepped by arguing that all media platforms should be federated (although, you still have the 900lb Gorilla, a.k.a. Mastodon, problem).
Good moderation acts against bad ways to voice an opinion, not bad opinions.
I don’t think there’s a debate to be had, moderation itself is not censorship. If you post about Portugal in a community for Latvia, removing that post is not censorship - it’s just moderation.
BAD moderation is often censorship, though