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  1. daringfireball.net

    Jun 21, 2023Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation at Scale Is Impossible to Do Well. Mike Masnick, back in 2019: I've argued for years that while many people like to say that content moderation is difficult, that's misleading.Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well.Importantly, this is not an argument that we should throw up our hands and do nothing.
  2. This is maybe a logical extension of the author's "theorem:" part of maintaining good content-moderation is limiting the scale. Of course this is dicey because the most well-intentioned efforts to keep a forum/community "high-quality" can easily become exclusionary and/or elitist.
  3. For a variety of reasons I've been studying the larger issues around content moderation. Mike Masnick offers Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well. It isn't that long, but it's important and his argument is powerful. He's not arguing for giving up on moderation, either.
  4. tagteam.harvard.edu

    And thus, throwing humility to the wind, I'd like to propose Masnick's Impossibility Theorem, as a sort of play on Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well. More specifically, it will always end up frustrating very large segments of the population and will always fail to accurately represent the ...
  5. techpolicy.press

    But as Mike Masnick puts it in his self-anointed Masnick's Impossibility Theorem, "content moderation at scale is ... like content moderation, is impossible to do well at scale—it is a nuanced task that is highly contextual, and thus requires a correspondingly nuanced structure of distributed processing and control to be done well ...
  6. There is an underlying technology problem here, not merely a social one. On some level, the scale itself could be identified as the culprit; Masnick's Impossibility Theorem contends that content moderation at scale is impossible to do well.
  7. timbornholdt.com

    Jun 22, 2023Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well. 🔗 a linked post to techdirt.com » — originally shared here on 2023-06-22 More specifically, it will always end up frustrating very large segments of the population and will always fail to accurately represent the "proper" level of moderation of anyone.
  8. theverge.com

    FT reporter Hannah Murphy later tweeted that Bosworth was citing Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: a maxim, coined by Techdirt founder Mike Masnick, that says "content moderation at scale is ...

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