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What is even the value of content moderation being a thing by a separate entity (the platform admins or community mods)? Why not just filter content on your own? Why do we like having others choose for us what content we see?
Two main points personally:
Great points; thanks! On that, there's a couple of ways I could see content moderation involving more personal freedom and choice:
give users more general types of content. For example "block all content containing ____ racial slur". Could be made more complex as well, especially with how open source language models are coming along
give users the ability to follow another user's content self-moderation choices. Consequently, a group of users can all be part of a group where, if one user flags content or type of content, it applies to others. The niceness of this is that it would be extremely fluid and you can opt out with a button.
This could lead to better moderation in my opinion, and less disconnect between moderators and users.
Does not solve the anonymity issue, but that's for another comment.
Those are reasonable options - though I'm pessimistic enough to believe that trolls will get better than every automated system, so we'd probably want some manual options. I wouldn't say it's not possible - just would require quite a bit of work, and would likely be an ongoing battle to improve your auto-moderator.
It feels like I'm moving the goalposts, so apologies, but your response got me thinking further. The other big advantages I can think of for central censorship is that it can actually prevent hosting of content - which has two benefits: