ModerationAsTableStakes

Context: TheWebWeLost, AGroupIsItsOwnWorstEnemy, RunningASocialPlatform

Interesting thread from someone who was a LiveJournal moderator on the internet today not being like 1999.

https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1594724708309553152 /https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1594724708309553152.html"

When I point out the ways people are incurring legal liability by failing to do the extremely basic steps necessary to run a service on the internet that accepts user generated content without being sued into oblivion, it is not alarmism.

The world has moved on from 1999. Your service will be used by sophisticated, organized, coordinated actors who share the best tactics to hurt people with each other. Your service will be used by hostile nation-states. Your service will be used by people to do genocide.

It isn't 1999 anymore. And I want there to be more places to hang out online that aren't run by "Big Tech" – I've devoted my last 14 years to it – but I also want people to not get killed and my friends not to get fucked over by people who don't realize it's not 1999 anymore.

If you put a service on the internet, people are going to use it to hurt each other. Demonstrating you're aware of the ways they will – and the ways it can hurt you – is table stakes for entry in 2022.