This is the Kaderie Daily Podcast for Tuesday, May 21st, 2004.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Many critics of social media companies can easily come up with examples where content

moderation apparently went wrong. Those anecdotes are useful but engaging in

content moderation at scale is just really difficult. So crafting rules to demand some specific flavor of

content moderation from Washington has all manner of unintended consequences.

David and Sarah in his new guide to content moderation for

policy makers urges humility to say nothing of respect for basic freedom of speech.

I remember years ago there was a hearing, I believe it was Mark Zuckerberg sitting down at a congressional hearing and he was being asked about pokes. You remember the Facebook poke?

I do.

That was a feature of Facebook. You could poke someone.

Yep. And I remember him being asked about pokes.

And it and just the line of questioning demonstrated

a profound lack of understanding of how social media works.

I don't suspect things have improved that much, but that image is stuck in my head of these moments where

members of Congress trying their best, I think, to get good information out of people just really have a hard time, not poo-pooing them for not knowing

how this works, but it is important for lawmaking that someone understands how social media functions if you are to even

begin to attempt to lay regulations upon them and we seem to be accelerating this moment when Congress

really really wants to, however you want to phrase it, crack down on social media's bad behavior

and content moderation as it exists in social media, at least for many members members of Congress just doesn't seem to be enough.

Yeah, so whenever we're thinking about how content policies may we can think of a lot of very specific examples of where content moderation went wrong, right?

We can think of your photo, which got mistakenly taken down for something, some back

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