![]() Society, in general, accepts the benefit of banning ISIS for inconveniencing some others, he said. When a platform aggressively enforces against ISIS content, for instance, it can also flag innocent accounts as well, such as Arabic language broadcasters. With every sort of content filter, there is a tradeoff, he explained. Motherboard recently had an excellent article detailing one manifestation of this problem, by noting that trying to apply rules across the board leads to some problematic results: We’ve also pointed out that a lot of the content decisions that moderators face fall into a terrible gray area, where it’s not easy to craft scalable rules that can be applied fairly across the board - in part because context matters and it’s impossible to scale the reviewing and understanding of context. Over and over and over again we’ve pointed out that content moderation at scale is impossible to do well - in part because at such scale, there are bound to be a huge number of errors, even if the percentage of errors is relatively small. Mon, Apr 29th 2019 10:44am - Mike Masnick
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