Dan Byman on Content Moderation Tools to Stop Extremism
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🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
There's enormous debate about how much social media platforms should be doing to moderate extremist content. But that debate often lacks nuance about the many different ways that platforms can moderate and that moderation is not an all or nothing proposition.
Daniel Byman is a professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and Lawfare’s foreign policy editor. He recently published a paper for Lawfare’s ongoing Digital Social Contract Research Paper series in which he lays out the many different ways that platforms can and do moderate content. Lawfare senior editor Alan Rozenshtein spoke with Dan about his research and how it can inform not just more but better moderation.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | Camille the only game in town places tremendous obligations on companies in a way that may not |
| 0:40.3 | be too legally. |
| 0:42.3 | But to me, if you think about a company dominating with your aspect of discourse, discourse is |
| 0:47.3 | such a basic part of political life and democracy. |
| 0:51.0 | I think it creates extra responsibilities for them and because of their size, I have no |
| 0:56.3 | problem putting extra burden on them. |
| 0:59.2 | I realize it's costly to have significant content moderation efforts. |
| 1:03.3 | But okay, I have actually no problem thinking of that as some form of tax that is in exchange |
| 1:09.0 | for these companies having some degree of natural monopoly. |
| 1:11.7 | And the monopoly, as we know, is formed in part for the benefit of the consumer. |
| 1:17.4 | It's beneficial to me that all my friends are on Twitter. |
| 1:21.7 | Rather than I have to be on five separate sites to get the same discourse. |
| 1:25.6 | So that's a good thing from a user point of view. |
| 1:27.9 | But to me, Twitter enjoys advantages as a result. |
| 1:31.7 | And having companies that enjoy such advantages have to have extra burden to me is quite reasonable. |
| 1:36.6 | Even if the legality of that is more questionable. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm Alan Rosenstein and this is the LawFair podcast, September 22, 2022. |
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