Huh, briefly there she does seem to acknowledge the role the system itself plays in exacerbating issues. But in her mind the “issue” is the outrage itself rather than the thing theyre outraged over. I think it’s fine to be outraged by outrageous things. Fighting for someone to be deplatformed due to their dangerous rhetoric falls under that category.
I hate the “harassing people doesn’t convince them” argument. The goal is to pressure you with collective action into reducing the harm that user is doing. I don’t need to “convince” you, I’m taking advantage of you being a for profit platform to show you the negative potential consequences of not taking action.
That said, to a degree I do like some of the ways bsky handles decentralizing moderation, but I hope she sees there are legitimate critiques to be had with it, and in any case she, as a member of the bsky company which still has significant centralized influence over the platform, cannot just handwave the calls for bsky to do something by saying “well, there’s decentralized moderation so y’all can just share a blocklist or something” when that’s not what the issue is.
Huh, briefly there she does seem to acknowledge the role the system itself plays in exacerbating issues. But in her mind the “issue” is the outrage itself rather than the thing theyre outraged over. I think it’s fine to be outraged by outrageous things. Fighting for someone to be deplatformed due to their dangerous rhetoric falls under that category.
I hate the “harassing people doesn’t convince them” argument. The goal is to pressure you with collective action into reducing the harm that user is doing. I don’t need to “convince” you, I’m taking advantage of you being a for profit platform to show you the negative potential consequences of not taking action.
That said, to a degree I do like some of the ways bsky handles decentralizing moderation, but I hope she sees there are legitimate critiques to be had with it, and in any case she, as a member of the bsky company which still has significant centralized influence over the platform, cannot just handwave the calls for bsky to do something by saying “well, there’s decentralized moderation so y’all can just share a blocklist or something” when that’s not what the issue is.