FOSTA has left social media and even hosting companies
with the “moderator’s dilemma”, which Senator Wyden tried to fix at the last
moment. Then a few weeks later the House
holds a hearing on abusive moderation and censorship practices!
Nicholas Suzor has an article exploring how social media
posts get moderated. YouTube is by far
the most transparent, as many posts get taken down in the first two weeks,
largely for copyright (DMCA) issues, sometimes for obvious hate speech.
Suzor also mentions his group’s publication of the “Santa
Clara Principles”, here.
Sometimes posts are removed as “spam” also. Blogger has had big issues with this,
particularly around the time of 2008 (ironically, shortly before the financial
crisis). The appeal process, according
to many reports, was not always very transparent.
In contradictions to the value of anonymous speech,
platforms might, out of future downstream liability concerns, become much more
concerned about the identity and motives or “business model” of the user or
speakers.
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